Pete Seeger, Bob Seger, & Corey Seager, Silver Slugger

[DOUGHBOYS]

I was going over the list of Silver Sluggers from 2017 this morning.
Yes, I do nerdy baseball stuff like that.
I was astounded at who won the National League Silver Slugger award at shortstop.
Go ahead, I'll give you a minute to think about who had a wonderful year at shortstop in the National League.
While thinking about it, I'll tell you that after seeing who won the award, I looked at NFBC ADP for top shortstops.
The answer lied there.
Besides NFBC heart throb, Trea Turner, there was no other real N.L. shortstop in the top 10, besides the winner.
Corey Seager.

Seagers numbers were .295/85/22/77/4
MEH
Even Seager would say, "MEH".
He knows he's a better hitter than that.
And we do too, since his ADP is middle of the third round.
We don't draft third round hitters for 22 homers and four stolen bases.

What is incredible is the lack of good hitting shortstops in the National League.
Besides Turner and Seager, and disallowing Javier Baez since he is the Cubs 'second string' shortstop, the next best hitting shortstop (ADP-wise)in the NL is Trevor Story.
Ugh.
Story may possibly lose his job by the end of the year to Brendan Rodgers.
And even if counting Baez as a 'real shortstop', eight of the top 11 shortstops in ADP hail from the American League.

1 Turner, Trea WAS
2 Correa, Carlos HOU
3 Lindor, Francisco CLE
4 Bregman, Alex HOU
5 Seager, Corey LAD
6 Andrus, Elvis TEX
7 Segura, Jean SEA
8 Bogaerts, Xander BOS
9 Baez, Javier CHC
10 Gregorius, Didi NYY
11 Gonzalez, Marwin HOU

In a sense, Houston could brag that their 'second string' shortstop would be the fourth best hitting shortstop in the National League.
The best run of Silver Sluggers from the shortstop position, Barry Larkin.
Larkin won the award nine of 12 years.
Alex Rodriguez won the award six years in a row in the A.L., but moved to third base afterward.
Unless the landscape at the position changes over the next few years, Seager may have free reign at many, many Silver Sluggers.

As for the Subject title, I just like the many ways to spell a 'famous' last name.