{"id":489221,"date":"2026-02-25T08:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/489221\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:12:13","slug":"rangers-corey-seager-ranks-among-mlbs-best-on-espn-list-of-top-10-shortstops-in-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/489221\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers\u2019 Corey Seager ranks among MLB\u2019s best on ESPN list of top 10 shortstops in baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the Marcus Semien trade<\/a>, Corey Seager enters the new season as the Texas Rangers\u2019 longest-tenured position player.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also a long-tenured member of preseason MLB \u201ctop shortstop\u201d lists.<\/p>\n

As the veteran Seager enters his 12th major league season, ESPN baseball guru Buster Olney places him right in the middle of his list of the top 10 shortstops<\/a> in baseball: He has Seager at No. 5.<\/p>\n

Seager is coming off another stellar year with an .860 OPS and 6.2 WAR in 2025, according to Baseball Reference. It was a season that met his usual standard \u2014 when he was actually on the field. Seager played just 102 games last year. He\u2019s missed significant time in each of his last three seasons in Texas.<\/p>\n

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Perhaps that\u2019s why Olney dropped him a spot from last year\u2019s list, flip-flopping him with Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor at No. 4.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what Olney had to say about Seager.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeager is very different from Lindor in that he tends to miss a lot of games \u2014 he was out for 60 last year, and he has reached 135 games on the season only once in the past eight years. But when he plays, he is a difference-maker: He generated 6.2 WAR in 102 games last season and has averaged a 139 OPS+ over the past eight. The Rangers might bear more injury worry than just about any other franchise, with Seager, Nathan Eovaldi and Jacob deGrom some of their core players \u2014 so they don\u2019t have a lot of margin for error. They desperately need Seager to stay in the lineup.”<\/p>\n

DeGrom was the Rangers\u2019 only other entrant<\/a> on Olney\u2019s top 10 lists as he\u2019s worked position-by-position across the diamond. He had deGrom ranked as the No. 10 pitcher last week, and no Rangers appeared in the six position groups since. Perhaps another sign of how top-heavy this Rangers roster is and how crucial it is, as Olney wrote, that their top players stay healthy.<\/p>\n

When he is healthy, Seager remains one of the top shortstops in the game. He ranks as the best at his position in the AL West, two spots ahead of division rival Houston\u2019s Jeremy Pena at No. 7. Bobby Witt Jr., Royals shortstop and product of Colleyville Heritage<\/a>, tops Olney\u2019s list at No. 1.<\/p>\n

See the full list here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Exemplary patience and perseverance have Latz ready for a spot in the Rangers\u2019 rotation \u2014 even if the team doesn\u2019t need him there.<\/p>\n

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