Free agent shortstop Corey Seager has agreed to ticket with the Texas Rangers, CBS Sports HQ’s Jim Bowden confirmed Monday. Seager, who had spent his entire occupation with the Dodgers, can be inking a 10-365 days contract fee $325 million.
Seager is the second huge commitment to a center infielder the Rangers delight in made in the last two days. On Sunday, they agreed to phrases with Marcus Semien on a seven-365 days deal fee $175 million. Seager and Semien will, evidently, kill Texas’ double-play aggregate for plenty of the rest of the decade.
The Rangers delight in additionally signed starting up pitcher Jon Gray and outfielder Kole Calhoun in most up-to-date days as they try to overhaul a roster that accomplished 60-102 last season. The Rangers haven’t made the postseason since 2016. They’ve accomplished last in three of the last four years, along side every of the previous two.
Seager, 27, entered the offseason ranked as CBS Sports’ second perfect free agent. Right here’s what we wrote on the time:
Seager can in actuality hit. He had the fourth-highest OPS+ amongst non-first-disagreeable infielders over the last two seasons, trailing only Fernando Tatis Jr., Trea Turner, and José Ramírez. He additionally ranked in the 80th percentile or higher in 2021 in two essential courses: 1) share of batted balls that had exit velocities above 95 mph, and 2) share of batted balls with a birth angle between 10 and 30 levels. That he used to be in a position to post such numbers despite a suite off-chuffed formulation (his swing fee used to be nearly an identical to Yermín Mercedes’) is a testament to his feel for contact. If there are areas for reservation with Seager, they bid his previous motivate woes and his lengthy-term defensive procedure. He tends to conflict coming in on balls, and it is doubtless he’ll must poke to the recent corner sooner than later. The bat will play there.
Seager used to be drafted in the principle round (18th total) out of excessive college by the Dodgers in 2012 and debuted in 2015. Now after seven years with the Dodgers, he’s a occupation .297/.367/.504 (131 OPS+) hitter with two All-Well-known particular person appearances and a huge payday in his first foray into free company.
CBS Sports’ Fable Baseball Nowadays podcast broke down the Seager signing. Listen below:
Final season, Seager overlooked a decent chunk of time attributable to a fractured stunning hand he suffered when getting hit by a pitch on Might perhaps additionally 15. Within the 95 video games he played, he hit .306/.394/.521 (145 OPS+) with 22 doubles, three triples, 16 homers, 57 RBI, 54 runs and 3.7 WAR.
