Kyle Lewis


Kyle Alexander Lewis is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball. He played college baseball for the Mercer Bears.

Amateur career

Lewis attended Shiloh High School in Snellville, Georgia. He played both baseball and basketball in high school. He chose baseball over basketball and attended Mercer University, where he played college baseball for the Bears. As a freshman in 2014, he appeared in 42 games with 17 starts and hit.281/.340/.382 with two home runs and 17 runs batted in over 89 at-bats. After his freshman season he played collegiate summer baseball in the Cape Cod Baseball League for the Cotuit Kettleers. As a sophomore in 2015, he played in 54 games, hitting.367/.423/.677 with 17 home runs and 56 RBI. He was the Southern Conference Baseball Player of the Year and was the co-winner of the Gregg Olson Award.
After the season, Lewis returned to the Cape Cod Baseball League, playing for the Orleans Firebirds. As a junior, he hit.395/.535/.731 with 20 home runs and 72 RBI. He was the Southern Conference Baseball Player of the Year for the second straight year and was named Baseball Americas College Player of the Year.

Professional career

The Seattle Mariners selected Lewis with the 11th overall pick in the 2016 Major League Baseball draft. He made his professional debut with the Everett AquaSox. On June 30, 2016, he won the 2016 Golden Spikes Award. Lewis only played 30 games for the Everett AquaSox due to a right ACL injury, batting.299 with three home runs and 26 RBIs. He spent 2017 with both the AZL Mariners and the Modesto Nuts, posting a combined.257 average with seven home runs and 31 RBIs in 49 games between both clubs, and 2018 with Modesto and the Arkansas Travelers, batting.244 with nine home runs and 52 RBIs in 86 games with the two teams.
Lewis returned to Arkansas for the 2019 season, hitting.263/.343/.398/.741 with 11 home runs and 62 RBI over 122 games.
The Mariners selected Lewis' contract and promoted him to the major leagues on September 10, 2019. Lewis hit a home run off Trevor Bauer in his major league debut that night versus the Cincinnati Reds. He hit home runs in each of his next two games as well, becoming the second player in history, after Trevor Story, to homer in each of his first three major league games. He finished the 2019 season with a.268/.293/.592 slash line along with 6 home runs and 13 RBIs in 71 at bats.