PEORIA, Ariz. — Kyle Lewis strides into the hallway of the Mariners’ spring training complex, moving with purpose. There is no grimace of pain on his face or sign of a limp in his gait.
The Mariners’ first-round pick — No. 11 overall — of the 2016 draft out of Mercer University looks, well, healthy and ready to step onto one of the back fields to chase down fly balls or lash line drives into the outfield.
But he isn’t.
Beneath the sweat pants he’s wearing are the lasting remnants of a healed incision on his right knee — the product of massive surgical reconstruction of his anterior cruciate ligament and medial and lateral meniscus.