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Los Angeles Dodgers: Why trading Corey Seager would be a terrible move

By Jason Reed

LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 08: Corey Seager #5 of the Los Angeles Dodgers hits a three run home run in the fifth inning of the game against the San Francisco Giants at Dodger Stadium on September 8, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 08: Corey Seager #5 of the Los Angeles Dodgers hits a three run home run in the fifth inning of the game against the San Francisco Giants at Dodger Stadium on September 8, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images) /
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2. Corey Seager is still an all-star, franchise shortstop

The overreactions to Corey Seager’s skill-level have been startling. I do not want to speak for the entire fanbase, but I have seen select fans throughout social media claiming that Seager is done, he is not the same and he is no longer the same player.

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All stemming off of him getting Tommy John, missing a year and being understandably slow to get going in 2019. The man took an entire year off of seeing big-league pitching. Of course, he is not going to thrive right away and I dare anyone to take a year off their job and be the exact same person when they return.

Yes, Seager has had some injury woes aside from the surgery, including a hamstring injury, and if you want to use that as the basis to trade him then I can’t argue that. All I can say is in the three full seasons he has still never missed 30 games.

Seager hit .267 with 19 home runs, 87 RBIs and a league-leading 44 doubles. His .817 OPS was 10th among qualified shortstops, and remember, this is supposed to be in a “down year”.

This is a guy that was an MVP finalist three years ago and is still only 25 years old. He is still younger than Aaron Judge was when he won the Rookie of the Year award.

And one bad playoff series is enough to completely wipe that off the table? Can you imagine if Cub fans were demanding that Kris Bryant be traded because of one bad NLDS? It would be absolutely asinine.

Heck, Christian Yelich hit .179 with seven strikeouts in 28 at-bats in last year’s NLCS. Very similar numbers to Seager, and while Seager is not on Yelich’s level right now, he could be in a year or two and the idea of trading him is just as crazy.

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Just put this into perspective: since 2016, Corey Seager ranks fourth in Major League shortstops in fWAR with a 16.7 WAR. He ranks fourth despite missing an entire season. You can’t really improve from that, so let’s stop overreacting from one five-game series.

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