Texas Rangers offense gets great news with latest Jung and Seager injury updates

The Rangers' offense looks like it should be getting healthy again just in the nick of time.

Eric Cole

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Given all of the injuries the Texas Rangers are dealing with on their pitching staff, the offense is going to have to be firing on all cylinders early in the season. Texas is right on the edge of not having enough pitching to even start the season, so the runs are going to need to be plentiful for the Rangers to survive until Max Scherzer, Tyler Mahle, and Jacob deGrom return.

However, the Rangers' position players are dinged up as well. Adolis Garcia had a slow ramp up in spring to manage some persistent aches and pains, and both Corey Seager and Josh Jung have been out with ailments of their own. Garcia is back to normal and raking in camp, but Jung and Seager are still lagging behind.

Fortunately, Rangers fans got positive updates on both Jung and Seager, as both should be back early in the 2024 season, if not by Opening Day.

Rangers News: Josh Jung and Corey Seager are both close to returning

Jung, who has been dealing with a strained calf in spring training, appears to be the closer of the two to returning to action. He is participating in baseball activities and should be able to get into enough spring games that he should have more than enough time to get ready for the start of the season. Given that Jung gave the Rangers 2.4 rWAR and an All-Star season last year, having him back in the fold will be welcome good news.

Their shortstop's chances of being ready by Opening Day are a bit sketchier, and it will be interesting to see if the Rangers actually put him on the injured list while Seager recovers from sports hernia surgery.

If general manager Chris Young is right that Seager is, at worst, still going to return shortly after Opening Day, Texas may just opt to avoid putting him on the IL so that he doesn't HAVE to sit out longer than he needs to. If he does get put on the injured list, then Seager's recovery may not be going as swimmingly as the Rangers are portraying right now.

Either way, it looks like two of the guys that the Rangers are going to be relying on the most on offense should be ready to roll soon. Whether their presence in the lineup will be enough to keep Texas afloat has yet to be determined.

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Eric Cole

I started my career writing about baseball covering the Atlanta Braves for SB Nation's Talking Chop back in 2015 which has since been renamed Battery Power. After years of writing for those fine folks, I made the decision to take over as Site Expert at House That Hank Built before becoming a full-time MLB Staff Writer for FanSided in 2023. Along the way, I have been a guest on multiple ESPN radio affiliates as well as 680 The Fan and 92.9 The Game to discuss Braves baseball and especially Braves prospects and was a long-time host on the Battery Power podcast. These days, I continue to write about the Braves as well as covering the Astros, Padres, and Angels with particular expertise with minor league coverage, the MLB Draft, and bashing Anthony Rendon when possible. When I am not writing about or talking about baseball (which is seldom), I am an avid baseball card collector (Maddux and Soroka being my primary personal collections) and I also collect shark teeth. All other sports are mostly dead to me as my Bills have broken my heart too many times.