Jean Segura
On November 23, 2016, the Diamondbacks traded Segura, Zac Curtis, and Mitch Haniger to the Seattle Mariners for Taijuan Walker and Ketel Marte. In June 2017, Segura signed a five-year contract extension with Seattle worth $70 million. The contract covers the years 2018 to 2022, and has a $17 million option for 2023, with a $1 million buyout. He returned to shortstop, and ended the season batting .300/.349/.427 with 22 stolen bases in 125 games.
In 2018, while batting .329 mid-season, he was named to the 2018 MLB All-Star Game, in which he hit a go-ahead 3-run home run off of Josh Hader in the 8th inning. For the season Segura batted .304 (7th in the AL)/.341/.415, with 136 singles (leading the majors), 178 hits (6th), and 20 stolen bases while striking out once every 8.5 at bats (5th-fewest), as on defense he was 3rd in the AL in assists with 387. He had the 4th-lowest whiff rate (12.6%; missing on just 136 of his 1,080 swings) among all qualified hitters, and the 9th-best contact rate (48.8%; 527 of his 1,080 swings were put in play), and led all major league batters in 3-hit games (20) and tied for first in infield hits (36). He became one of only four MLB batters with a .300 or better batting average over the last three years, along with Jose Altuve, Freddie Freeman, and Mike Trout. He and Starling Marté were the only two MLB players to have stolen 20 or more bases each season since 2013. Over his two seasons with the Mariners he batted a combined .302/.345/.421 as Seattle's shortstop. Among regulars at shortstop in those two years, his 112 OPS+ ranked 4th behind Francisco Lindor, Xander Bogaerts, and Didi Gregorius.
On December 3, 2018, the Mariners traded Segura, Juan Nicasio, and James Pazos to the Philadelphia Phillies for Carlos Santana and J. P. Crawford. Segura waived the no-trade clause in his contract to allow the trade to take place.
On November 23, 2016, the Diamondbacks traded Segura, Zac Curtis, and Mitch Haniger to the Seattle Mariners for Taijuan Walker and Ketel Marte. In June 2017, Segura signed a five-year contract extension with Seattle worth $70 million. The contract covers the years 2018 to 2022, and has a $17 million option for 2023, with a $1 million buyout. He returned to shortstop, and ended the season batting .300/.349/.427 with 22 stolen bases in 125 games.
In 2018, while batting .329 mid-season, he was named to the 2018 MLB All-Star Game, in which he hit a go-ahead 3-run home run off of Josh Hader in the 8th inning. For the season Segura batted .304 (7th in the AL)/.341/.415, with 136 singles (leading the majors), 178 hits (6th), and 20 stolen bases while striking out once every 8.5 at bats (5th-fewest), as on defense he was 3rd in the AL in assists with 387. He had the 4th-lowest whiff rate (12.6%; missing on just 136 of his 1,080 swings) among all qualified hitters, and the 9th-best contact rate (48.8%; 527 of his 1,080 swings were put in play), and led all major league batters in 3-hit games (20) and tied for first in infield hits (36). He became one of only four MLB batters with a .300 or better batting average over the last three years, along with Jose Altuve, Freddie Freeman, and Mike Trout. He and Starling Marté were the only two MLB players to have stolen 20 or more bases each season since 2013. Over his two seasons with the Mariners he batted a combined .302/.345/.421 as Seattle's shortstop. Among regulars at shortstop in those two years, his 112 OPS+ ranked 4th behind Francisco Lindor, Xander Bogaerts, and Didi Gregorius.
On December 3, 2018, the Mariners traded Segura, Juan Nicasio, and James Pazos to the Philadelphia Phillies for Carlos Santana and J. P. Crawford. Segura waived the no-trade clause in his contract to allow the trade to take place.
