Lewis Thorpe of the Minnesota Twins pitches during a spring training game against the Tampa Bay Rays. (Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images)
Lewis Thorpe has been a member of the Minnesota Twins organization since he was 16, when he was signed out of Australia and given a $500k signing bonus. He was brought into the organization with a fastball that sat in the high eighties, and looked to have a bright future ahead.
Flash forward to 2021. Thorpe is now 25. After nine years with the Twins (two seasons in the majors, four seasons in the minors, two seasons injured), Thorpe now faces a question that a lot of once promising prospect face: can he make it in the big leagues?