The Rangers shortstop has been described as having a robotic personality, but Texas’s Game 3 hero simply approaches baseball with a different sort of intensity that’s paid off.
shortstop hit a home run and reacted with near indifference, calmly setting down his bat, not so much as a smile on his face. He jogged around the bases with an air of obligation that would be more befitting someone walking up to an appointment at the DMV than hitting a moonshot in the World Series.. It puts Texas up in the series two games to one. And it marks a return to form for Seager. He has been hitting home runs like this all October.
Seager is slashing .298/.444/.649 during the playoffs, during which he’s hit five home runs in 15 games.Joe Rondone/USA TODAY NetworkThe result is a player who can be difficult to understand from a distance. Seager shirks the spotlight and rarely shows emotion on the field. This was true in his seven seasons with the—during which he won Rookie of the Year in 2016 and World Series MVP in ’20—and it has continued in his tenure with the Rangers.
Lowe was quick to clarify that the only remarkable part of that sentence is the final prepositional phrase. He’s seen Seager get fired up plenty of times—playing cards, shooting hoops, even a few days on the golf course. “He’s a human being,” and a great teammate besides, Lowe said. But he’d never seen any of that emotional spirit on the ballfield. He pushes back on the idea that Seager is robotic, but given what fans see of him on the field, Lowe understands why the misconception exists.
He works closely with Ecker. But he also has a private swing consultant. Seager uses former MLB catcher Shawn Wooten, who originally became close with the shortstop with the Dodgers, for whom he served as a minor-league hitting coach from 2014-16 and a big-league coach in ‘17. Wooten now runs a private hitting facility in Minnesota. But he is in contact with Seager almost every day.
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