Corey Seager Biography

He was named the National League Rookie of the year in 2016. He is not married nor single. He is in a blissful relation with the gorgeous lady Madisyn Van Ham.

Corey Seager’s Early Life and Education

Corey Seager was born on April 27, 1994, in Charlotte, North Carolina, the U.S to Jeff Seager and Jody Seager. He is the youngest of the three brothers.

His oldest brother Kyle Seager plays in the professional American baseball team based in Seattle Washington, Seattle Mariners, and older brother, Justin Seager was drafted in the 12th round for the 2013 Major League baseball draft.

He went to Northwest Cabarrus High School in Kannapolis, North Carolina and attended the University of South Carolina on the college baseball scholarship. He was selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball in the first round with the 18th overall selection of 2012 MLB Draft.

Also, he received $2.35 million as a signing bonus with Dodgers instead of attending the University of South Carolina.

Corey Seager’s Career

He started his career in the minor league where he had 309 batting average in 46 games in 2012. One year later in 2013, he has 309 hits, 12 home runs and RBI 57 in 74 games. So he was called up for the Major League of Baseball in 2015.

In 2015, he received a non-roster invite to the Dodgers major league training and ranked him in the 7th best prospect in baseball. Baseball America named him the 5th prospect in the same year. He was promoted to a Minor League baseball team, Oklahoma City Dodgers of class AAA Pacific Coast League (PCL) on May 1, 2015.

Corey Seager Postgame Interview| Dodgers Spring Training

In the game of May 28 against Salt Lake Bees, he had six hits in six bats including six RBI and home runs. Then he became the second player in the history of Oklahoma City franchise to record six hits in one game. Moreover, he was selected for the midseason PCL All-Star team.

Baseball America also selected him for the Minor League All-Star team as well as named him an AAA All-Star and AAA Player of the Year.

On September 3, he made his debut against San Diego Padres and he had two hits in four at-bats win two RBI in his debut with Colin Rea of the Padres. He was the third youngest player in the history to accomplish that feat after Ken Griffey, Jr. and Orlando Cepeda.

Supplanting the former professional baseball shortstop Jimmy Rollins, he hit 337 in 27 games with the Dodgers with 17 RBI and four home runs. He started as the shortstop for the Dodgers in the first game of 2015 National League Division Series which makes him the youngest position player to start a postseason game in franchise history.

In 2016, in the Dodgers Opening Day starting shortstop, he became the youngest of the Dodgers since Gene Mauch in 1944. On 3 June he hit three home runs in a game against Atlanta Braves. As the 2016 Rookie of the Year, Baseball America selected Seager and he was awarded as the Players Choice Awards.

After the session, he was awarded the third Dodgers rookie award, Silver Slugger Award. Also, he was the unanimous winner of the National League Rookie of the Year Award and 2016 Esurance MBL or This Tear in Baseball Award as the Best Rookie.

Furthermore, he hits his second career three home runs game against the New York Mets on June 20, 2017. He batted 295/375/479 with 22 home runs which named him the second straight all-star game and he won second consecutive Silver Suggest Awards.

Corey Seager’s Net Worth

Corey Seager has estimated his net-worth of $3million. He also received $2.35 million for the signing bonus after being drafted. As per the sources he earns $510K as salary from Dodgers.

Corey Seager's car

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He has his lavish car Audi which price ranges from $28,995-$218,850 and Range Rover which price starts from $100K.

Corey Seager’s Awards and Accomplishments

A professional American baseball player Corey Seager won numerous of awards some of them are:

All-Star Future Game 2014, 2 Major League Baseball All-Star selection 2016, 2017, Trible A Minor League Player of the Year 2015, Baseball America Rookie of the Year 2016, Topps All-Star Rookie Team 2016, The Sporting news National league Rookie of the Year, National League Rookie of the Month June 2016 and many more.

He was recorded for home runs hit by a shortstop in one season and for the first consecutive major league by Los Angeles Dodgers.

MBL record, shared with Kyle Seager as the first pair of brothers to each hit at least 25 home runs in the same season and as the youngest shortstop and sixth youngest overall to hit three home runs in one game.

Corey Seager’s Personal life

Corey Seager is not married nor single. He is in a blissful relationship with the gorgeous lady Madisyn Van Ham who is the student of Business Marketing Major at East Carolina University.

The duo is together since their high school prom day and they have been dating since their high school days. The pair is open about their relationship and they usually share a lot of pictures of themselves on the social sites. Till now there are no any rumors of their breakup.

Seager is also active in social media such as Instagram and Twitter where he posts numerous pictures regarding his career, with siblings and his lover. He has 390K followers on his Instagram account and 98.7K followers on Twitter.