Seager is the eldest of three sons born to Jeff and Jody Seager.[2] His brother Corey was selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the first round of the 2012 draft,while brother Justin was selected by the Mariners in 2013.[3] He grew up a New York Yankees fan and idolized Derek Jeter.[4]
The Seattle Mariners selected Seager in the third round,with the 82nd overall selection,of the 2009 MLB draft.[10] Seager spent the majority of the 2009 season with the Class-A Clinton LumberKings. He hit .275 with one home run and 22 RBIs. He also played one game with the AZL Mariners and two with the Class-A Advanced High Desert Mavericks. Seager spent the entire 2010 season with the High Desert Mavericks,batting .345 with 14 home runs and 74 RBIs.
He was ranked by Baseball America as the ninth best prospect in the Mariners organization for 2011.[11] He split the season between the Double-A Jackson Generals,batting .312 with four home runs and 37 RBIs in 66 games,and the Triple-A Tacoma Rainiers,where he hit .387 with three home runs and 17 RBIs in 24 games.
Seattle Mariners
On July 6,2011,Seager had his contract purchased by the Mariners.[12] He hit his first Major League home run on August 19,2011,against the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field,and finished the year with a .258 batting average,three home runs,and 13 RBIs in 53 games. In 2012,his first full MLB season,Seager hit .259 with 20 home runs and 86 RBIs in 155 games.
On June 5,2013,Seager hit a grand slam against the Chicago White Sox in the 14th inning. It was the first time in MLB history that a player hit a game-tying grand slam in extra innings.[13] He finished 2013 with a .260 batting average,22 home runs and 69 RBIs in 160 games.
On April 23,2014,Seager drove in five runs to avoid a sweep against the Houston Astros. He hit a two-run home run in the seventh inning to cut the Astros lead to 3–2,and hit a walk-off three-run shot in the bottom of the ninth,allowing the Mariners to win 5–3. The first walk-off hit of his career,his performance earned him an April Co-Player of the Week Award,shared with JoséAbreu of the White Sox.[14] On June 2,Seager went 4–4 with a double,two triples and a three-run home run against the New York Yankees. The first Mariner to accomplish the feat,he became the first MLB player with two triples and at least one double and homer in a game since Hal Breeden for the Montreal Expos in 1973.[15] On June 15,he went 4–for-4 with two singles and two doubles and three RBIs. On July 7,he was named to his first All-Star team as an injury replacement for Toronto Blue Jays player Edwin Encarnación.[16] He finished the 2014 season with a .268 batting average,25 home runs and 96 RBIs in 159 games,and won a Gold Glove award.[17]
On December 2,2014,the Mariners finalized a seven-year,$100 million contract extension with Seager.[18] In 2015,he hit .266 with 26 home runs and 74 RBIs in 161 games.
On April 25,2016,he hit his 100th career home run in a game against Houston.[19] He finished 2016 with a .278 batting average,30 home runs and 99 RBIs in 158 games and he and his brother,Corey,made history by becoming the first pair of brothers in major league history to each hit 25 or more homers in the same season.[20] On defense,he led the major leagues in fielding errors,with 18.[21]
In 2017,he hit .249 with 27 home runs and 88 RBIs in 154 games,his sixth consecutive season with at least 20 home runs and at least 154 games played.[citation needed] On April 7,2018,he reached 1,000 career hits against the Minnesota Twins.[22] Seager continued his streak of seasons with 20 or more home runs and at least 154 games played,hitting 22 home runs with 78 RBIs in 155 games but hit a career-low .221 in the process.
In 2019,during a spring training game,Seager sustained an injury to his left hand while attempting a diving play on a ball. He was diagnosed with a hand injury that required hand surgery,sidelining him for eight to 10 weeks.[23] He missed 53 games before returning to the lineup in late May 2019.[24] On August 13,2019,in an 11-6 victory over the Detroit Tigers,Seager became the 11th Mariner to hit 3 home runs in a game and the first since 2010;the third home run was a ricochet off the glove of Goodrum when a teammate collided with him near the wall.[25][26] In 106 games,Seager hit .239 with 23 home runs and 63 RBIs,extending his streak of consecutive seasons of 20 or more home runs to eight.
On August 5,2020,in a game against the Los Angeles Angels,Seager hit his 200th career home run. On August 17,Kyle faced his brother,the Dodgers Corey Seager,for the first time in an MLB game and both homered in the game,becoming the first pair of brothers to homer in the same game since César and Felipe Crespo did it on June 7,2001.[27]
In 2020,Seager batted .241/.355/.433 with nine home runs and 40 RBIs and led the AL with 6 sacrifice flies.[28]
In 2021,Seager batted a career-low .212,but set career highs in home runs and RBIs,with 35 and 101,respectively. He also led all third basemen with 43 double plays.
The Mariners declined Seager's option for 2022,and on December 29,2021,Seager announced his retirement from baseball.[1][29] Knowing back in spring training that the Mariners were likely not going to pick up the option,Seager went into the 2021 season expecting it to be his last one. He felt that the fact that each year it became more onerous to prepare for the coming season,combined with his missing out on time with his growing family,signaled it was time to move on to the next phase of his life.[30]
During the following off-season,the Texas Rangers inquired if Seager would be interested in coming out of retirement to join up with his brother,Corey,who had signed with the team a few months earlier. Kyle Seager declined the offer,saying he was happy "doing chores at home".[31]
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