Seager Proves He Can Be A Star At Shortstop

Corey Seager saw all the draft reports out of high school listing him as a third baseman.

- Kyle Glaser

He read every word questioning if he could stick at shortstop as he made his way up the minors.

At first, the questions confused and irritated him. As he got drafted and ascended the Dodgers system, they motivated him.

“That’s kind of been something since I was drafted that’s been brought up,” Seager said by phone during the Dodgers penultimate regular-season series in San Diego. “‘I wasn’t gonna play short. I was gonna move to third,’ so that was something that I always worked hard at. I kind of used it as a little edge to prove people wrong and prove that I could play there to people who really had never even seen me play.”

Lost in all the criticism was year after year Seager made every play at shortstop, all the while showing an offensive skill set as gifted as any young prospect this side of Mike Trout or Kris Bryant.