Heartbreak for Texas Rangers: Corey Seager’s Season-Ending Surgery Announced

Heartbreak for Texas Rangers: Corey Seager will be out for the rest of the 2024 season after the Rangers announced that he will go through surgery on his sports hernia on his right side this Friday, according to GM Chris Young.

Seager will be out for the rest of the 2024 season after the Rangers announced that Corey Seager surgery on his sports hernia on his right side this Friday, according to GM Chris Young.

Seager was removed from the 10-day injured list because of right hip issues; he last played in the game on Sept. 2. Young described Seager as being on track to fully recover, saying that the major setback is likely to occur only next year towards spring training.

“Definitely a no-brainer,” Young said as he perched on a bench inside the visitor’s dugout in T-Mobile Park before the Rangers started a four-game series against the Mariners. That is really where we are at this point of the season but it seemed like the right thing to do and most appropriate in order for him to get full recovery, have a good preparation for the offseason and get prepared for spring training.

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Certainly I understand the sentiment toward Corey but he has been outstanding as a leader both in the clubhouse and on the field for us this year so I look forward to having him back next year healthy.

It will be the second time this year that the Rangers shortstop will undergo a sports hernia surgery, as in January he underwent surgery to fix a hernia on his left side that appeared during the final weeks of the Rangers’ run to the World Series.

“He came through it very well from the first operation and I am sure he will do everything possible to ensure that he comes through the second one well,” Young said.

To Young, who himself on July 13 underwent bilateral sports hernia repair as a player, Seager’s hip injury could certainly have played a factor.

“You know these muscles down here attached to your pelvis; they hold your pelvis in place,” he said. “When one side becomes unstable, the other side has to absorb it. It’s kind of natural that you have bilateral issues. ”

Seager was out Thursday and Josh Smith played his eighth of the past nine games at shortstop Thursday.

In the past, Seager mentioned that he could not quite say when exactly he started feeling hip issues but it was in the last couple of weeks that it began getting a little challenging to move around.

It is something that the 30-year-old shortstop of the team failed to do as he managed only a batting average of .278 with an .865 OPS in 123 games in this current season. He hit 30 home runs, which is the highest by the rangers, though he has not played for the last 10 days.

He’s so important to them and to our franchise and our future; to ask him to go out and play through and to finish out the season where he could potentially injure himself or make his injury worse, it just wouldn’t make sense. “The right decision here was to go ahead and have the operation and have a full recovery. ”

Seager has been sidelined by injuries for playing in less than 125 games over the last two seasons. This season expectancies were considerably lowered last year due to strains to his hamstring and thumb, which saw him out of action for nearly six weeks in total.

Last year, the Rangers qualified for the playoffs as a wild card—the AL’s second wild card, in fact, after they matched the Houston Astros’ 90-72 record but lost the tiebreaker—but currently sit third in the AL West with a 70-76 record.

This week should be an especially exciting one for Texas, with Kumar Rocker beginning his MLB career today and Jacob deGrom, the best Texas’s pitcher, starting for the first time this year on Friday. Max Scherzer will get back to the Rangers starting lineup on Saturday.