To be fair, some team medical staff are more worried about angering the managerial staff than making sure the players are receiving the proper medical attention. Lewis probably saw what happened to players in MLB or the NFL in terms of the medical departments and saw outside opinions concerning his knee. See what happened to Kelechi Osemele and the Jets.
I think had he listened to the advice of the team docs he might still be an effective ballplayer. When teams make million dollar investments, they tend to want very good doctors to look after their players.
i was there the day he got injured for the first time, the ACL injury, which haunted him his whole time, at the aquasox sitting 5 rows back from the field. I can still see the play in my mind.. that sucked. He had a shot though in arizona and couldn't make prove himself so that's on him.
Baseball is a physically demanding sport. Staying healthy for 1 home stand is a remarkable feat. Staying healthy the entire season each year is absolutely amazing. Kyle Lewis is yet another tragic tale of a promising player whose body betrayed him much too soon. Oh well I hope he didn't spend his signing bonus in one place.
I always wondered what happened to Lewis. Sad story, how do you go from Rookie of the year in your division to disappearing completely. Mariners management sucks. The coaching staff are puppets.
Agree, chatted with his mom before a game when he was down in Tacoma, and she was awesome to talk to (though somehow no one had told her that he had the same smile as her). When healthy he was fun to watch and played with joy on his face. He is one of those guys who the ball comes off his bat differently and can absolutely rake.
@@thatoneveryfunnychannel2482 I google search every couple weeks to see if maybe someone gives him another shot. The amount of injuries he has suffered through will break anyone down (both physically and mentally). In Tacoma saw him hit an absolute moon shot, as I said there are guys out there where the ball just sounds different coming off their bat, and he is one of them. Thanked his mom for raising a great kid before the game as he was signing a ball and card for my nephew.
He won that ROY award on the strength of really 1 good month. I was as excited as anyone about him coming up but he's just not a viable big leaguer. That BS Covid season skewed the perception, he would not have won the award in a regular full season.
this was all about his knee. If you saw him play the last couple years of his career you could see the dude just was hampered by a knee that was never going to be right.
Wild to look at a player who tried to do his own rehab with outside doctors, had it fail multiple times because his knee was made of glass, had the team try to move him to corner outfield and DH and had him pitch ran for, and think "damn i cant believe he was mismanaged like that". Dude had glass knees, couldnt accept it, and got butthurt about it.
Seager, Bellinger, Acuna, Ohtani, Alvarez, Williams, Judge. Plenty more if you look into it. Half the MVP awards over the last 10yrs were former R.O.Y winners.
Lewis doesn’t want to adapt. I’ve talked to a few people who’ve worked with him. He doesn’t want to play. He refuses to listen and in a mean way, he’s lazy. You can blame it on injuries but he doesn’t want to get better.
@@willyonish2650im not saying a source because its not public knowledge. It’s what I’ve heard being around people who have or had ties with him. And from what I’ve seen from him, it kind of matches up. They could be lying but they could not be.
