Statcast of the Day: Seager does it all for LA

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At just 22 years old, Corey Seager has emerged as the Dodgers’ best player and perhaps one of the best players in the National League. The way Seager has played so far beyond his age in 2016, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that he led his team to its biggest win of the season Sunday, a 4-3 division-clinching victory.

The Dodgers stood on the verge of clinching the NL West with a win Sunday. They were tied with the Rockies in the bottom of the eighth (thanks to a seventh-inning RBI triple hit by, who else, Seager) when Colorado’s DJ LeMahieu hit a hot shot up the middle. Seager ranged to his left with a first-step reaction time of just three one-hundredths of a second and covered 20 feet, according to Statcast™, before diving behind second base to stop the ball.

The young shortstop’s reaction on a …

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