Los Angeles Dodgers: Three absurd takes to avoid from postseason loss
By Jason Reed
1. It’s time to move on from Corey Seager
Corey Seager was nothing short of terrible in the NLDS. If Seager ended up playing half as good as he can play then there is a very good chance that we would be previewing the NLCS right about now.
Seager constantly found himself in some of the biggest moments of the game and there was not a single time that he managed to come up and deliver. Seager was 0-8 with runners in scoring position in this series, finishing with three hits and eight strikeouts in 20 at-bats.
After a return from Tommy John that was not as good as the two years that preceded it, there are fans that are fed up with Seager and want the franchise to move on. While for the most part, fans are biting back at the Seager trade chatter, it is common-enough to consider it a trend among the fanbase.
This would be a massive mistake for the Los Angeles Dodgers and is extremely near-sighted. This is a guy that finished as an MVP finalist in his rookie season just three years ago and is still only 25 years old. He is still younger than Aaron Judge was when he made his MLB debut.
Yes, Seager was not as good as he could have been in the regular season and was awful in the playoffs. But he was also coming off of a year without baseball and had one bad five-game stretch.
To completely give up on one of the organization’s foundational pieces after one bad playoff series is simply unfair.