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ARLINGTON, Texas — The Texas Rangers intend to explore trading Corey Seager at this week’s general managers’ meetings in Las Vegas, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reported Tuesday, about a month after the shortstop had surgery to remove a bone spur from his right elbow. The Oct. 6 procedure means Seager will enter 2027 coming off surgery for the third straight season.
At the club’s Sept. 28 end-of-season press conference, Rangers president of baseball operations Chris Young said Seager had dealt with the spur “for a few months.” After the procedure, Texas said Seager was expected to recover in time to begin his normal offseason work, MLB.com reported.
Corey Seager Has Spent Time On Injured List In Each Of Past Four Seasons
Seager missed the final month of the 2025 season after an appendectomy. He went on the injured list Aug. 29 that year.
On Jan. 30, 2024, Seager had surgery to repair a left-side sports hernia. He went on the injured list Sept. 4 that season with right hip discomfort. Nine days later, he had a second sports hernia surgery, this one on his right side.
He also landed on the injured list in 2023 with a hamstring strain and a right thumb injury, and in 2025 with two hamstring strains. Seager has averaged 112 games over the past four seasons.
In 2026, both of Seager’s injured list stints were for lower back inflammation. The first came in mid-May and cost him 19 games. He went back on the injured list July 1 after his back flared up during warmups in Cleveland, and he missed 23 games before Texas activated him July 31 in Houston.
Seager Posted .804 OPS After Returning From Back Injury
Before the second back injury, Seager was hitting .182/.292/.374 with 10 home runs and 25 RBI in 51 games. From his July 31 return through the end of the season, he hit .269 with 10 homers and an .804 OPS.
Seager finished 2026 at .227/.312/.424 with 20 home runs and 51 RBI in 102 games. His .736 OPS was the lowest of his career. Baseball-Reference lists his 2026 strikeout rate at 23.6%.
The missed time did not prevent a strong defensive finish, either. Seager ranked eighth among shortstops in Defensive Runs Saved.
In 2025, Seager hit .271/.373/.487 with 21 home runs in 102 games. A year before that, he hit .278/.353/.512 with 30 home runs and 74 RBI before the hip and hernia trouble ended his season.
In 2023, Seager hit .327/.390/.623 with 33 home runs and finished second in American League MVP voting. He was named World Series MVP that fall as Texas won its first title, his second World Series MVP after winning the award with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2020.
Seager is owed $155 million over the next five seasons. He holds full no-trade protection, so he would have to approve any trade. He turns 33 on April 27.
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