Corey Seager will miss at least 4 weeks for the Rangers with a hamstring strain

General manager Chris Young said Seager had an MRI that showed a grade 2 strain. Seager, who was injured in the fifth inning of Tuesday night’s game against Kansas City, spent nearly a month on IL with a left hamstring injury during the 2019 season with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

“Someone of Korean caliber is not replaceable, but leads to an opportunity for other players to advance. That’s what good teams do,” Young said. “All good teams, every team, go through injuries. And we knew something like that was going to happen, we just didn’t know when or to whom.”

The Texans entered Wednesday night’s game against the Royals leading the AL West with a 7-4 record.

Seger said he doesn’t remember much about the 2019 injury and doesn’t want to set a return schedule.

“There’s nothing else you can do right now but support your teammates and try to be healthy,” said Seger. “What that looks like, I don’t know yet. It will depend on how you feel.”

While Seager went to IL for 10 days, the Rangers activated switch-hitting position player Leodi Taveras from that roster. Taveras, who was due to return from his rehab assignment sometime this week, started the season at IL due to a left oblique strain he sustained during hitting practice early in spring training.

Taveras returned to the line-up to finish seventh in the Rangers ranks. Josh Smith was the starting shortstop and hit second, Seager’s usual spot in the standings.

Seager was off to a great start in the second year of his $325 million, 10-year contract with the Rangers. He was hit running out of an opposite field double to left cornerback, the fifth consecutive game with an extra base hit. He entered the seventh day in the American League hitting . 359, with nine walks and a . 469 on-base percentage.

“You’d hate to see it the way he was playing,” said manager Bruce Bochy. “He’s been locked at the plate, as well as any hitter I’ve seen.”

After making the turn cleanly first, Seager took a few more steps before suddenly pulling off and then limping the rest of the way to second base. He briefly reached the back of his leg, bent down and almost immediately began running back toward the Rangers dugout, even before the team’s coach had come all the way out to check on him.

Seeger said he was thinking of a hat-trick from the moment of contact because the left fielder was far off the ball.

“So it wasn’t like I was really faster or something like that,” Seger said. “It’s just unfortunate that it happened.”