With the 2025 Texas Rangers season having come to an end, we shall be, over the course of the offseason, taking a look at every player who appeared in a major league game for the Texas Rangers in 2025.
Today we are looking at shortstop Corey Seager.
Corey Seager had a great season for the Texas Rangers in 2025. He raked. He played really good defense. I did a post late in the 2025 season about Corey Seager and how good he had been in 2025 because I was so mad that someone called him “mid.” The only
issue one can really take with Corey Seager’s 2025 season is that he was missed too much time due to injury. He had a pair of stints on the i.l. due to a hamstring strain early in the season, then missed the final month due to an appendectomy. As a result, he played in just 102 games in 2025.
At this point, I think we recognize that Corey Seager is going to miss some time in any given season due to physical issues. And Corey Seager is good enough that we can live with that. We can just assume he’ll miss two-three dozen games each season due to a hamstring issue or something similar.
Its part of what makes him having appendicitis so frustrating, though. Corey Seager is not an iron man. He’s cracked the 135 game mark three times in his career. The Baseball Gods shouldn’t punish us — shouldn’t punish him — by having him have to undergo an appendectomy during he season. The Baseball Gods should have had appendicitis strike once the season is over.
Especially given that Seager had been on a heater prior to then. Seager finished the season with a .271/.373/.487 slash line, good for a 151 OPS+ and 138 wRC+. From July 1 until his season was cut short, though, he slashed .301/.405/.552. Another month of hitting like that doesn’t just boost the Rangers offense and possibly alter their fortunes in September, it also potentially puts him in the MVP race.
When you look at Corey Seager’s 2025 Statcast page, you see a bunch of dark red. 98th percentile xwOBA, 95th percentile hard hit rate, 93rd percentile average exit velocity, 92nd percentile barrel rate. Seager’s walk rate of 13% was a career high, and placed him in the 93rd percentile. In regards to his batting profile on Statcast, the only areas where he is below 50% are launch angle sweet spot (46th percentile) and whiff percentage (27th percentile).
Corey Seager has been a Ranger for four years. He’s 14th in team history in bWAR, at 22.1. A 4 bWAR season in 2026 would move him up to 10th, passing Rusty Greer, Josh Hamilton, Alex Rodriguez and Michael Young. Most of the players ahead of him on the list currently played at least 1000 games for the Rangers — Seager is at 495 games played for Texas, just 10 more than ARod.
At the end of 2026, Corey Seager will be halfway through the 10 year, $325 million deal he signed after the 2021 season. So far, that deal doesn’t just look like a bargain — it rivals the Adrian Beltre deal as the best free agent signing the Rangers have ever made.
I am not going to pretend I don’t have concerns about Seager going forward. The problem with injury-prone players is that they tend to get injured a lot, and that doesn’t generally get better as a player ages. Maybe Seager can follow the path of Paul Molitor, another guy with a great bat who struggled to stay on the field in his 20s. Molitor managed to put that behind him for the most part in his 30s, ultimately earning a plaque in the Hall of Fame.
I believe that Corey Seager will end up in the Hall of Fame. He’s crossed the 40 WAR mark in both the f and b flavors, and will still just be 32 this season. He’s coming off a three year stretch where he’s averaged over 6 bWAR per season despite playing in just 70% of the regular season games. He has a pair of legendary World Series performances under his belt.
Corey Seager had a great 2025 season. I’m hoping for several more of those from him before it is all said and done.
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