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Until this season Kyle has been a good player poised on the edge of greatness. This season he has moved into greatness. Not all-time great, but able to stand stat for stat with the best in the game at his position.
Kyle Seager Seismo's Matching His Stats
some pretty cool teams have had Steady Eddies at third base
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It would be normal and natural if Kyle Seager had his best year at age 28. Right now it looks like that's what he's doing. Oh! yeah in the stats as well as on the field:
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| Yrs | G | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS | Remark |
| 24-25 | 155-160 | .260 | .320 | .425 | 110 | 20 homers. Hard-pull ability with CT% ability |
| 26-27 | 155-170 | .268 | .333 | .450 | 120 | 25 homers |
| 28 | .287 | .364 | .528 | 146 |
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The stats back up the eye here - Seager is anticipating the pitches better. He has cut his fishing percentage from 30% to 24% and his swing-at-strikes % has gone up from 63% to 71%. It ain't the numbers, dude. It's that he's seeing the ball better. Better than what? Better than Kyle Seager 7/$100M.
If you want to use the kludgy old EYE ratio :- ) it's gone from a rock-steady 0.45-0.55 to its current 0.73. That is a sweet, sweeeeeet EYE ratio for a player of Seager's type.
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Seager has always had the ability to lift the ball up in the air to RF with authority. Now he has added to that the ability to take base hits to LF at times. Well, he has increased that ability, and it's based on seeing a "pitcher's pitch" earlier (or simply in guessing it more often). His opposite-field hit percentage has gone from a lifelong 23% to its current 30%.
Hence, the .290 batting average the Mariners always wanted from him. Which contributes to his slugging pecentage soaring from .454 to .500-and-plenty. In Safeco, that's like .550 plus. Dem's da big leagues.
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Seager had an outrageous BABIP against him early on. The only person who wasn't worried was him. He hit .360/.420/.630 in May, with an EYE of 12:14. Right now he's looking like the M's version of Sal Bando - if you add a little wood, that is.
BABVA,
Dr D