One of many high shortstops in baseball is probably not accessible.
After weeks of salary-shedding hypothesis, Rangers common supervisor Chris Younger said the crew — regardless of curiosity across the league — is “not purchasing” shortstop Corey Seager.
“Whereas I perceive groups checking in, I believe that’s been overblown,” Younger mentioned Sunday on MLB Community Radio.
“We’re not purchasing Corey Seager, we would like Corey Seager to assist us win our subsequent championship.”
Seager, 31, signed with the Rangers as a free agent after the 2021 season, inking a 10-year, $325 million deal — the most important in franchise historical past.
He has six years and $189 million remaining on his contract, and regardless of battling some accidents, he’s been a power within the Rangers’ lineup.
The previous Dodgers star has been named an All-Star in three of his first 4 seasons in Texas — and helped information the Rangers to the franchise’s first World Sequence in 2023, defeating the Diamondbacks.
In 2025, Seager had a slashline of 271/.373/.487 with 21 residence runs in 102 video games.
Younger mentioned that a few of the Rangers’ different strikes this offseason, notably buying and selling fellow high-salary infielder Marcus Semien to the Mets, might have given groups the improper thought.
“For no matter cause, perhaps they thought by buying and selling [Semien] we’d be open on Corey, there’s been variety of groups referred to as,” Younger mentioned. “They usually characterised Corey as maybe, if he have been a free agent, he’d be the most effective participant free agent in the marketplace proper now.”
The Yankees have been linked as a attainable suitor for the five-time All-Star, given the crew’s uncertainty at shortstop getting into 2026.
After a disappointing 2025 adopted by offseason labrum surgical procedure, Anthony Volpe is predicted to overlook the start of subsequent season.
Commerce deadline acquisition José Caballero is predicted to see the majority of the shortstop workload in Volpe’s absence — however common supervisor Brian Cashman admitted he had “no thought” how the place will shake out in 2026.
“You may by no means predict any individual’s journey, any individual’s affect,” Cashman mentioned throughout the Winter Conferences final week. “[Volpe and Caballero are] each high quality gamers in their very own proper, however … I nonetheless consider every part that we felt about [Volpe] previous to his surgical procedure, and I’m completely satisfied we’ve got Cabby as nicely. So I don’t know the place issues will go.”
