SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — Colby Lewis and his wife were talking about where baseball has taken them after his perfect postseason for the Texas Rangers.
He says it’s been a journey to be back home again in the Rangers rotation.
The most recent travels were from Japan back to Texas — and the World Series last season with the team that drafted him more than a decade earlier. He missed a season recovering from rotator-cuff surgery before playing for Detroit and Oakland, then going to the Far East for two seasons.
Manager Ron Washington has guaranteed only two spots in the starting rotation for the AL champions — Lewis, who was 3-0 with a 1.71 ERA in four postseason starts, and scheduled opening day starter C.J. Wilson.
