By Mike Berardino

Pioneer Press

Shortstop Royce Lewis won’t be in Sunday’s All-Star Futures Game, but this weekend brought a different sort of reward for the Twins’ top prospect.

Lewis, 19, was promoted to high Class A Fort Myers following Friday night’s game for low-A Cedar Rapids. Lewis, ranked 10th among all prospects by Baseball America, will join former Kernels teammates Alex Kirilloff and Brusdar Graterol, both of whom were promoted to the Miracle last month.

Miracle manager Ramon Borrego was Lewis’ first professional manager in the Gulf Coast League last summer.

In 93 games and 407 plate appearances in the Midwest League, dating to last August, Lewis hit .311 with a .367 on-base percentage, 10 home runs and a .467 slugging percentage.

This season saw Lewis, drafted first overall in June 2017, fight through a prolonged batting slump in May that coincided with patellar tendinitis in his left knee. He homered five times in his final 13 games under manager Toby Gardenhire, and Lewis’ park-adjusted production ranked 38 percent above league average, 10th in the Midwest League.

His 15.0-percent strikeout rate and .853 OPS also were 10th-best among qualifying hitters.

Lewis, who doesn’t turn 20 until next June, entered Sunday with 566 professional plate appearances. Fellow shortstop mega-prospects Carlos Correa, Francisco Lindor and Corey Seager averaged 1,624 minor-league plate appearances before reaching the majors.

Correa, who debuted in June 2015 at age 20 and 259 days, required the fewest trips in the bushes of that group: 1,288.

Lindor, drafted eighth overall by Derek Falvey’s Cleveland Indians in 2011, was 21 and 212 days with 1,880 professional plate appearances when he debuted six days after Correa.