Topping list of Texas Rangers’ needs is more from Corey Seager

The Texas Rangers are seeing signs that Corey Seager is about to bust out of his season-opening funk, and it couldn't happen any sooner (Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images). Corey Seager said he’s feeling better at the plate, and Skip Schumaker believes a breakthrough is imminent. The Texas Rangers need their best player to be more productive.

ARLINGTON — The player who rarely shows emotion when things are going well for him and the Texas Rangers also doesn’t flip out when he’s not hitting. No punching walls or turning over tables or kicking the dog, figuratively or literally. No animals have been harmed during this Corey Seager season-opening slump.

“I love them too much,” he said. Seager also loves to swing the bat, and that hasn’t slowed during the Rangers’ first quarter of the season. Making contact has slowed, as his .

209 average with 42 strikeouts entering Friday suggested. He’s been around long enough to know that he has to work his way out of his slump, that the solution isn’t in reinventing the wheel but in working toward what has made him so good in the past. A more productive Seager is the main ingredient missing from a Rangers offense that again ranks among the worst in baseball and is the worst in baseball at home.