The News Tribune · Mar 5, 2017
Seager appreciates the positive sabermetric spin but those 22 errors still sting
Third baseman Kyle Seager looks around the Mariners’ spring clubhouse these days and, well, it seems depleted. No Felix Hernandez. No Robinson Cano. No Nelson Cruz. No Jean Segura.
The World Baseball Classic is about grab baseball’s attention over the next few weeks even as Seager grinds away in an effort to erase the sour taste remaining from his career-worst 22 errors a year ago.
Twenty-two — the most among American League third basemen and coming just two seasons removed from winning a Gold Glove in 2014 for defensive excellence when he committed just eight errors.
Awful. No argument. Least of all from Seager. But that’s not the whole story.