MLB · SS · Texas Rangers
Corey Seager
B/T L/R · 6' 4" · 215 lb · born Charlotte, NC, USA · age 32 · draft 2012 rd 1 · played SS 73, DH 3 · MLB debut 2015-09-03
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-26): 12 G · .409 AVG · 2 HR · 6 RBI · 1.139 OPS
314 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The card rack
FlagshipCorey Seager [Gold] #96 · 2026 Topps · 76 recent sales 7N ▲1.6%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-27 · paid links
The rookieCorey Seager #150 · 2016 Topps Chrome · 185 recent sales 7N ▲0%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-27 · paid links
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Scout’s note
Seager holds the last slot on the breakout board — No. 20 of 20 — but the shape is no courtesy. His EV95 of 107.7 is harder than 74 percent of 372 qualified hitters, above a league median of 105.9, and his luck gap of -0.0548 means his results have run further below the physics than 94 percent of the sample. Charlotte-born, a 2012 first-round pick who debuted in 2015, he is 32 now with 234 career home runs and a .865 OPS across 1,203 games. He has played only 72 games this season — .232 with 13 home runs — but the last two weeks show the line catching fire: .419, a 1.164 OPS, two homers in 12 games. The barrel has been ahead of the box score all year; lately the box score is finding it.
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 373 qualified major-league hitters — 100+ balls in play this season, the same field the boards are chosen out of. Right is better on every row.
- EV95107.774
- Deserved (xVal)0.43887
- Got (aVal)0.37459
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.05494
today · 30 days ago, against the 330 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
What he’s paid
Under contractA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $31.50M
- Tax hit
- $32.50M
- Service time
- 10 yr 32 d
- Guaranteed
- $325M
The deal 10 years $325M (2022–2031) — $32.5M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 10 y/$325M (22-31) · agent Boras Corp. · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $31.5M | $31.5M | $31.5M | $31.5M |
| Tax hit | $32.5M | $32.5M | $32.5M | $32.5M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Texas Rangers.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $32.5M
- Guaranteed
- $325.0M
- Term
- 10 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $31.0M | $31.0M | $31.0M | $31.0M | $31.0M | $31.0M |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
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Umpire favor
+1.8 net runs over 20 graded games — the zone was kind to him on balance.
The line
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