2025 Baseball Season

Buck Turgidson · Dec 6, 2025

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zeeshan2 · Dec 23, 2025 at 10:26 AM

MLB insider Jon Heyman reported that there was a clubhouse “conflict” between Marcus Semien and Corey Seager during their time with the Texas Rangers.

Speaking on Bleacher Report Live, Heyman said the Rangers ultimately traded Semien to the Mets in part because the organization wanted to break up the pairing over what he described as a “clubhouse thing,” adding that there was “a little bit of a conflict there.”

Semien and Seager have long been known to have differing philosophies when it comes to game preparation. That dynamic was previously referenced by former Ranger Kevin Pillar, who said on The Foul Territory Show upon his retirement in July that the Rangers clubhouse had “a lot of individual stuff going on” and “a lot of guys doing their own thing.”

Additional signs of clubhouse chemistry issues were noted by DLLS Rangers reporter Jeff Wilson, who said that during the 2025 season, Semien made multiple attempts to organize team get-togethers, but only a handful of players attended. Wilson also added that the team rarely spent time together off the field, and that many players’ wives frequently traveled with the club, an arrangement he described as atypical.

A Rangers Nation source familiar with the situation claims tensions escalated late in the 2025 season, when Semien allegedly directed a pointed remark toward Seager, suggesting he “talked a lot for someone who only played around 30 games that year.”

While on-field factors clearly played a role in Texas’ decision to move its World Series–winning second baseman, the reported clubhouse dynamics add an interesting layer of context to the move.
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