{"id":488,"date":"2026-05-22T02:56:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=488"},"modified":"2026-05-22T02:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:56:41","slug":"%f0%9f%9a%a8-rangers-boost-corey-seager-gets-glowing-projection-but-ex-mlb-gms-brutal-decline-warning-changes-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udea8 RANGERS BOOST \u2014 Corey Seager Gets GLOWING Projection\u2026 But Ex-MLB GM\u2019s Brutal Decline Warning Changes Everything!"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"article-body\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxsports.com\/statics.foxsports.com\/www.foxsports.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1200\/675\/gettyimages-2274835452-scaled.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Rangers Star And 2-Time World Series MVP Corey Seager In Worst-Ever Slump |  Fox News\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Texas Rangers are 24-25 on the season, below .500, but they&#8217;re still just one game back of the AL West lead over the Athletics.<\/p>\n<p>Even with how much the team has struggled, and injury issues for Corey Seager and Wyatt Langford, among others, they&#8217;re not in a terrible spot this season. But, if there is one concern, it would be the production of Seager.<\/p>\n<p>He has a .179 average this season and is someone Rangers fans might be worried about beginning to decline in his MLB career. But, ex-MLB general manager Jim Bowden for The Athletic projected that this isn&#8217;t a decline for Seager, but rather a speed bump due to injury.<\/p>\n<h2>Corey Seager isn&#8217;t declining, just fighting through injury per ex-MLB GM<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;My best guess: He&#8217;ll rebound,&#8221; Bowden writes. &#8220;&#8230;Given he&#8217;s on the IL with ab ack injury, it&#8217;s entirely possible the slow start has more to do with that injury (which may have been lingering before it was an IL issue) than age-related decline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seager, even with his poor .179 batting average, has posted 0.8 bWAR this season and a 91 OPS+. He&#8217;s below-average, and well below the lofty 146 OPS+ he&#8217;s had with the Rangers the last four years.<\/p>\n<p>But, even with the struggles from Seager this season, Bowden isn&#8217;t worried that the 12-year veteran is declining. The 32-year-old infielder might have just been feeling the negative side effects of his back injury.<\/p>\n<p>If he can come back from the injured list and begin producing for the Rangers, those decline concerns will be completely dispelled.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That will be a huge test for Seager, because if he struggles coming off the IL, then there will be a lot more concerns about his current All-Star production being firmly in the rear-view mirror.<\/p>\n<p>But, it&#8217;s still too soon to actually worry that Seager is declining, especially since his back injury, which landed him on the IL, is very possibly the reason for his below-average start to the season.<\/p>\n<p>He will need to be watched closely going forward in case his decline is for real. But, fans shouldn&#8217;t stress about Seager declining just yet, just as Bowden isn&#8217;t ready to write Seager off just yet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a welcome projection for the Rangers and Corey Seager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\ud83d\udea8 RANGERS BOOST \u2014 Corey Seager Gets GLOWING Projection\u2026 But Ex-MLB GM\u2019s Brutal Decline Warning Changes Everything! - Sports USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=488\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\ud83d\udea8 RANGERS BOOST \u2014 Corey Seager Gets GLOWING Projection\u2026 But Ex-MLB GM\u2019s Brutal Decline Warning Changes Everything! 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