Corey Seager Marquee

He was the most valuable player of the 2020 World Series for Los Angeles and of the 2023 World Series for Texas. Four men have won that award twice — Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson, Reggie Jackson and him — and he is the only one to do it for two clubs.

He was the unanimous Rookie of the Year in 2016, all thirty first-place votes, and finished third in the Most Valuable Player voting the same season, at twenty-two. Eleven seasons have given him 1,254 hits, 221 home runs, 270 doubles and a .289 average, with five All-Star selections and three Silver Sluggers.

He is a shortstop of a size the position did not used to allow, six foot four, and his brother Kyle played eleven seasons at third base for Seattle. Elbow reconstruction cost him most of 2018 and a broken hand most of 2021. Texas signed him for ten years after that, and he was second in the Most Valuable Player voting in 2023.