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Los Angeles Dodgers: Bold predictions for Corey Seager in 2020

By Jason Reed

BALTIMORE, MD - SEPTEMBER 12: Corey Seager #5 of the Los Angeles Dodgers looks on during the game against the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on September 12, 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Will Newton/Getty Images)
BALTIMORE, MD - SEPTEMBER 12: Corey Seager #5 of the Los Angeles Dodgers looks on during the game against the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on September 12, 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Will Newton/Getty Images) /
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3. Corey Seager has a better season than Francisco Lindor

The most bewildering thing about the Corey Seager-Francisco Lindor trade ideas that Dodger fans were throwing out was the fact that Lindor is not that much of an improvement from Corey Seager and very well could be the worse shortstop in three years time.

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Some fans had the idea of trading Seager and prospects to Cleveland for Lindor, which was just silly as it would make no sense to trade parts of the farm for a marginal upgrade at best. Plus, it made no sense from the Indians’ standpoint as they would have had to sign Seager to a new contract at the same time that they would have had to sign Lindor.

Regardless, there is not much of a gap at all between Seager and Lindor. Seager joins Bogaerts and Carlos Correa as the only shortstops with a .350 OBP, 65+ home runs and 240+ RBIs since 2016, despite missing an entire year.

He also posted a 113 wRC+ in 2019, which we all agree was a down year for him. Lindor posted a 114 wRC+ last season, in what wasn’t deemed as a down year for him. Seager has a 128 career wRC+ and Lindor a 119 wRC+.

Seager is fourth among shortstops in WAR since his rookie season and that is with him missing an entire season and then only playing at 70 percent the following season. Lindor is first, but if the two had the same number of games at the same average then Seager would only be 0.9 WAR behind Lindor.

And keep in mind: that is with Seager having a down year last year. Just imagine if he never got hurt and continued building off his early success.

Lindor is the better fielder, there is no denying that, and that is why the WAR numbers are as close as they are in the same sample size. But Seager is not a bad fielder, in fact, he is an above-average fielder with a well-above-average bat.

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Corey Seager is going to have a much better season than Francisco Lindor and it won’t even be close, proving the Los Angeles Dodgers right for not trading him after five bad playoff games.

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