The 2025 season was an anomaly for Marcus Semien.

The veteran second baseman, who had not played fewer than 159 games in a full MLB season since 2017, was limited to just 127 with the Texas Rangers after fouling a ball off his foot, which, as he described, "cracked a bone and sprained a ligament."

But even when healthy, his offensive game lagged. He hit .230 with a career-worst .669 OPS. Having averaged 31 home runs across his previous five seasons (not counting the COVID-shortened 2020), he settled for just 16 this year.

"I'm disappointed in the way that I performed offensively last year," Semien said on Tuesday.

Despite still being an elite defender, the Rangers shipped him to the New York Mets on Sunday, where the work to rediscover his All-Star-caliber bat is already underway. The

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