The Dodgers announced they’re activating star shortstop Corey Seager from the 60-day injured list prior to this evening’s game against the Diamondbacks. He’s in tonight’s starting lineup, hitting cleanup and playing shortstop.
The star shortstop has been out since being hit on the hand with a pitch from Ross Detwiler in mid-May. X-rays revealed a fractured right hand for Seager that was expected to cause him to miss at least a month. Seager ended up more than doubling that timeline, missing 2 1/2 months. In the meantime, the Dodgers went out and acquired another star shortstop in Trea Turner.
Turner recently tested positive for COVID-19 and was placed on the COVID-IL, just a day before being traded. So, Seager can be slotted into the six-hole for now. But it’s unclear how the team will proceed once they have both players on the roster at the same time. Seager spoke to Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic and didn’t seem to be able to shed light on the situation, telling Ardaya that the team has not discussed the situation with him.
Being a free agent at season’s end, the Dodgers have no investment in Seager maintaining as a shortstop for the long-term. Turner, on the other hand, will still be under team control through 2022, having one year of arbitration remaining. Turner also is the better fielder, according to DRS, with Turner at a 10 for his career at shortstop and Seager at -8. UZR is reversed though, having Seager at 5.4 and Turner at -5.6.
Regardless of how it plays out, it’s a good problem to have for the Dodgers. Both players are among the best shortstops in the league. Before going on the IL, Seager had put up a wRC+ of 118. That’s down from his career mark of 129 but still well above the league average of 100. Turner, for his part, has a wRC+ of 137 this year, well above his career number of 121.
Them dodgers looking scary
Dodgers Lineup:
Betts
Seager
J.Turner
Bellinger
T.Turner
Taylor
Smith
Pitcher
Man, the Dodgers are so good they only hit 8. All-star Max Muncy, and the scorching hot AJ Pollock don’t even get a starting spot. That’s a bold choice by Dave Roberts.
Trea will be at the top or second. His speed with Betts is going to set up record RBI opportunities for Seaver and Bellinger. J Turner will drop in the lineup.
Seager.
No Bellinger will drop cause he can’t hit a ball
And Seager will be back on the DL any minute
Send Belly down, to much smoking of the weed
Except, replace Bellinger with Pollock.
Betts
Muncy
JT
Seager
Smith
TT
Pollock
CT3 – CF
Pitcher
Betts
Trea
JT
Muncy
Seager
Smith
Taylor
Pollock/Bellinger in a platoon favoring pollock
Pitcher
It doesn’t really matter the exact order and that’s kind of the point. You have 9 all-stars fighting for 8 spots. Not to mention a rotation of Scherzer, Kershaw, Buehler, Urias, and Duffy. Good luck.
I think Duffy might be thrown into a relief role as he will be fresh of the IL
@Wendell
How do you forget muncy? Team mvp so far this season
I think Muncy is quickly in the lineup if day, CT3 is having a down week. As of now though, that’s who I’d figure would be in the lineup.
Seems like a good get-right scenario. Your team just traded for your replacement, and you come back against Arizona. He should play angry, and rake.
But baseball being baseball, watch Arizona win 4-1.
Backup SS Trea Turner DFA’d to make room
Rumors say Bellinger, Smith are next
Getting stronger. Hopefully a deeper lineup gets Bellinger some more pitches to hit.
Bellinger already gets all the pitches he can hit. He needs to right this himself. Can’t hit a home run on every swing!
I think he bakes N rakes a little too often.
Many MLB players have prescriptions for adderall and some find MJ can balance some negative side effects.
Probably doesn’t help you catch up to the high heat though
Send Belly down, he’s lost right now and hurting team
The Dodgers are still getting stimulus checks.
Star shortstop Corey Seager is playing shortstop. Who woulda thunk it?
Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle. That’s astounding!
Who’s going down?
He or Story are starting for the Rangers next year.
Why would either of them want to play for a AAA team? I’m sure other teams in contention will offer them as much money.
Why would the Rangers burn nearly $300 mil on a player who might not even be worth the money by the time the team is any good? This makes no sense for anyone involved.
What is your “logic” that the Rangers would do this????
Corey Seager gets on base in his very first at bat back from the 60-day IL.
Don’t care if he reached on error. He’s on base.
The Dodgers are expected to win every game the rest of the season, per ESPN
And next season
And every year until their strong core falls apart.
And the Yankees will hit six home runs every game thru the end of the regular season. Let the games play out. Everything on paper looks good until it doesn’t play out that way.
Actually, the Yankees hit into 2 more double plays tonight, and thru their trades now claim 9 of the top 50 players in the major leagues who GIDP. Like i said, everything on paper looks good until it doesn’t.
Can’t even beat Arizona. Great walk-off D-Backs!!!
The Dodgers have acquired shortstop Xander Bogaerts off of waivers from the Red Sox, Per ESPN. Good depth signing and hopefully the kid gets a shot at the boys some day.
They better send Sale and pay his contract too
If COVID is so serious, how come the Dodgers weren’t concerned?
Go tour a hospital and find out for yourself.
And get beat by the worst team in the NL.
That’s why games are played on the field and not on paper.
Another terrible game played by LAD tonight
Left runner on 3rd o outs 7th
1st and 2nd 0 outs 8th
1st and 3rd inning ending Dp 9th
Go to extras and Fall to 1-10 in on the year in extra baseball
This team is great but they don’t particularly play well over the first 102- Those who watch nightly I feel know what I’m saying
I can no longer bear to watch and not especially those close games, which they mostly figure out how to lose even against some of the worst teams. They are playing bad baseball and are only still in the running due to the huge quantity of talent, but it is mostly being wasted. A lot of great players, but a terrible team.
I’ve said for years this team has a problem manufacturing runs and its gotten way worse this year
Its just not in their DNA
You can actually kind of feel them tightening up when things get close….so damn odd…they actually play more composed/loose when they are down 3 then tied…….
Maybe it’s in the water?
Something is broken with the approach. It’s hard to say where, but management needs to figure it out, pronto.
Doyers have not been good so far this year.
they better figure it out soon or it will be a quick exit from the playoffs…
My mets will sweep them in the world series. Degrom is an animal
Mets-Dodgers World Series? Cool
Mets move to AL without telling us?
Get banned and changed your name?
Mets and Dodgers cannot play in the WS and DeGrom is hurt
Otherwise your post makes perfect sense….
With the amount of shifting going on, does it really matter if you have two shortstops on the field at the same time? Aren’t you simply dealing with two middle infielders who will play on both sides of the second base bag?