BIOGRAPHY
Corey Seager was born on April 27, 1994, in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a shortstop in the MLB.
The Dodgers selected Seager in the first round of the 2012 Major League Baseball draft, and he made his major league debut in 2015. Seager was the 2016 National League (NL) Rookie of the Year and was an MLB All-Star in his first two seasons in the majors. He was named the NL Championship Series Most Valuable Player (MVP) and the World Series MVP while leading the Dodgers to the 2020 World Series title over the Tampa Bay Rays.
The Dodgers' Opening Day starting shortstop in 2016, Seager became the youngest for the Dodgers since Gene Mauch in 1944. On June 3, Seager hit three home runs in a game against the Atlanta Braves. He was the first Dodgers shortstop to do so since Kevin Elster in 2000, the youngest shortstop in major league history to accomplish that feat, and the sixth youngest player overall. Seager was named the National League Rookie of the Month for June and was selected to play to the National League All-Star team. He also participated in the Home Run Derby and hit 15 homers, the second-best total for a Dodgers player in Derby history.
A back injury suffered in the third game of the 2017 NLDS kept Seager off of the Dodgers roster for the 2017 NLCS. However, he returned to the roster for the 2017 World Series. He had six hits in 27 at-bats, including a home run and a double in the World Series, but the Dodgers lost the series in seven games to the Houston Astros.
Seager completed the 2020 regular season having played in 51 of 60 games and hit .307/.358/.585. Among all qualified hitters on the Dodgers, he led the team in batting average, slugging percentage, hits (65), doubles (12), and RBIs (41). Seager attributed much of his hitting success during the season to being fully healthy, as partly evidenced by his career-best 93.2 mph Statcast average exit velocity. On defense, he had the highest fielding percentage among major-league shortstops, at .952. Seager was named MVP of the 2020 National League Championship Series and was then named MVP of the 2020 World Series while leading the Dodgers to their first championship since 1988. Between the NLCS and the World Series, Seager hit .347/.439/.816 with 7 home runs and 16 RBIs.
On December 1, 2021, Seager signed a 10-year, $325 million contract with the Texas Rangers. The contract was the largest in Rangers franchise history, surpassing Alex Rodriguez's record $252 million deal set in 2000.
In 2022 he batted .245/.317/.455, and had the lowest called-strike percentage of all major league batters (9.0%). He hit a career-high 33. homers.
In 2023, Seager batted .327/.390/.623 with 33 home runs and a career-high 96 RBI, leading the AL in doubles (42) and percentage of balls hard-hit (48.4%). He was named to the All-Star team for the second straight year. In the 2023 World Series, Seager hit .286 with three home runs and six RBI to help the Rangers defeat the Arizona Diamondbacks in five games. He became the fourth player in history to win the World Series MVP award twice, joined Reggie Jackson as both the second position player and second player to do so with two different teams, and became the first to win the award in both the American League and the National League.
