It was evident on the day Jacob deGrom officially became a Ranger. Later, in pictures that surfaced from teammate Joe Barlow’s wedding. And, again, last week...
“Absolutely,” he told reporters. “The biggest learning curve [last year] was just that everything with was new. New organization. New people. New living situations. All those aspects come into it.”
One change, though, was not as easily solvable: losing. For the first time in his MLB career, it was something Seager had to deal with. In seven years with the Los Angeles Dodgers, he’d been on teams that averaged 99.5 wins – 100 if we’re rounding up – per 162-game season to one that lost 94. You hope you never get used to losing.
When, they did return, this creature of habit, whose extraordinary preparation routine borders on obsessive, had no time to learn his teammates or staff. It didn’t help either when the Rangers blew a 7-run lead on opening day, when they lost nine of their first 11, when one-run losses became the norm or when, after scrambling back to .500 to start June, the team collapsed in a big heap.
A remarkably consistent hitter throughout his career whose numbers across the board ticked up slightly after the All-Star break, Seager instead went backward in 2022. He posted an .804 OPS in the first half; it fell to .728 in the second. It was the lowest second-half OPS of his career.
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