Seager, Semien deals official

Corey Seager and Marcus Semien are officially members of the Texas Rangers, as the signing of each player was officially announced today and the players were introduced in press conferences. I had been holding off on doing an official transaction post with these deals in the hopes that the Jon Gray signing would be officially announced as well and I could include him, but that hasn’t happened yet, so Gray will get his own post when that is announced.

The Semien deal was announced first, and we talked about the Rangers agreeing on a 7 year, $175 million deal with him on Monday when the news broke. In his press conference, Semien talked about the importance of Ron Washington in his development…