One of many high shortstops in baseball is probably not accessible.
After weeks of salary-shedding hypothesis, Rangers normal supervisor Chris Younger said the workforce — regardless of curiosity across the league — is “not buying” shortstop Corey Seager.
“Whereas I perceive groups checking in, I feel that’s been overblown,” Younger stated Sunday on MLB Community Radio.
“We’re not buying 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 biggest 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 pressure 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 stated that among the Rangers’ different strikes this offseason, significantly buying and selling fellow high-salary infielder Marcus Semien to the Mets, could have given groups the improper concept.
“For no matter cause, perhaps they thought by buying and selling [Semien] we’d be open on Corey, there’s been variety of groups known as,” Younger stated. “They usually characterised Corey as maybe, if he have been a free agent, he’d be the very best 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 workforce’s uncertainty at shortstop coming into 2026.
After a disappointing 2025 adopted by offseason labrum surgical procedure, Anthony Volpe is anticipated to overlook the start of subsequent season.
Commerce deadline acquisition José Caballero is anticipated to see the majority of the shortstop workload in Volpe’s absence — however normal supervisor Brian Cashman admitted he had “no concept” how the place will shake out in 2026.
“You may by no means predict any person’s journey, any person’s impression,” Cashman stated in the course of the Winter Conferences final week. “[Volpe and Caballero are] each high quality gamers in their very own proper, however … I nonetheless consider every little thing that we felt about [Volpe] previous to his surgical procedure, and I’m glad now we have Cabby as effectively. So I do not know the place issues will go.”
