The Corey Seager experience has been a little subdued this spring.
The 2016 National League Rookie of the Year has a sore elbow that has lingered since the second half of the 2017 season. He served as the Los Angeles Dodgers’ designated hitter in the defending NL champs’ 13-5 win over the White Sox in the preseason opener on Friday, a genuinely strange sight. Seager then sat out on Saturday with a stomach illness.
Seager’s third full year in the Major Leagues started without a trusted mentor. Oklahoma City hitting coach Shawn Wooten, a favorite of Seager’s, was cut loose by the team in the offseason.