Corey Seager isn’t the shiny new SS anymore

Phil Gurnee ♦ May 3, 2019 ♦ Leave a comment

Hard to believe but Corey Seager is already twenty-five years old and while Dodger fans wait for the 22/23 Seager to show up, the team down south in San Diego has the shiny new shortstop who has already been ordained the best young Shortstop in California.

We won’t get to see Fernando Tatis Jr. this trip against the Padres due to his untimely injury but the 20-year-old has lived up to the hype and is probably the odds on favorite to be the next National League ROY.  Meanwhile, Corey Seager is laboring at SS for the Dodgers. Dave Roberts continues to bat Seager near the top of the lineup, and Corey continues to make critical out after critical out.  All those outs have been masked by the brilliance of Cody Bellinger, but there will come a time when Cody can’t do it all, and it would be a good time for Seager to get it going when that happens.  Until the bat wakes up, Corey is just an afterthought at the Shortstop position with Javier Baez, Paul DeJong, Tatis Jr., Trevor Story, and even Dansby Swanson outperforming the one time Dodger stud.

Player               WAR/pos  PA OPS+ Age Lg   BA  OBP  SLG   OPS
Javier Baez              2.1 128  155  26 NL .314 .352 .653 1.004
Paul DeJong              2.1 135  159  25 NL .333 .393 .585  .978
Fernando Tatis Jr.       1.6 111  145  20 NL .300 .360 .550  .910
Dansby Swanson           1.4 120  126  25 NL .262 .333 .534  .867
Trevor Story             1.4 141  113  26 NL .272 .348 .520  .868
Nick Ahmed               0.9 125   81  29 NL .261 .304 .400  .704
Jose Iglesias            0.7  91   98  29 NL .302 .341 .419  .759
Corey Seager             0.4 130   81  25 NL .228 .323 .351  .674
Jean Segura              0.3  87  133  29 NL .338 .391 .500  .891
Miguel Rojas             0.3 100   94  30 NL .286 .340 .352  .692
Orlando Arcia            0.2 113   77  24 NL .231 .292 .385  .677
Erik Gonzalez           -0.1  59   62  27 NL .216 .298 .294  .592
Amed Rosario            -0.2 119   95  23 NL .268 .311 .393  .704
Wilmer Difo             -0.6  89   69  27 NL .238 .307 .338  .644

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Generated 5/3/2019.