ARLINGTON — Texas Rangers manager Bruce Bochy joked Friday that even he can walk around better than Corey Seager can at the moment.
That’s fine. The Rangers don’t need their all-world shortstop moving at his best until spring training anyway.
Seager underwent season-ending sports hernia surgery on his right side Sept. 13 and will now spend a second consecutive offseason rehabbing from the same operation. The difference: His first surgery, in January, forced him to miss nearly all of spring training. The hope and belief is that this one won’t.
“It went good,” Seager said Friday in his first public comments since the operation. “I feel a lot better. Even the first couple of days I’m moving around a lot better. It’s good to be on the other end of it.”
Seager said that the recovery and rehab will mirror his first earlier this year. He said that he’ll treat the timeline similarly to how he did last offseason, but acknowledged that “if anything happens, I’m not really worried about it, you’ve got some extra time.”
The reigning World Series MVP slashed .278/.353/.512 with 30 home runs in 123 games this season despite an abbreviated early season ramp-up and the latest discomfort, which he began to feel “a couple of weeks ago.”
“Some more time probably would’ve been nice,” Seager said. “But it was the situation we were in and you want to be out there.”
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