He didn’t want to make a big deal of it at the time. It was just a few days into spring training in Arizona, and Kyle Seager just wanted to get to work and start preparing for the 2019 season.
As Seager talked about the changes he made to his thinking, his diet, his workouts and what it meant for his performance, there was a sense of pride, accomplishment and optimism in his voice. Perhaps this would help him return to his All-Star and Gold Glove-level form of 2014.
Unfortunately, he was never really given a legitimate opportunity to see how that all that offseason work would help him through the course of an entire season.