Rangers' Sebastian Walcott: Shut down from AFL action
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Walcott was shut down in the Arizona Fall League on Tuesday due to arm fatigue, Kennedi Landry of MLB.com reports.
Walcott slashed .255/.355/.386 across 552 plate appearances at Double-A Frisco during the regular season, and the Rangers were hoping to get their top prospect a few extra reps this fall. The 19-year-old's AFL experience will instead be cut short after one game, during which he went 2-for-4 with a double. He will now have an entire offseason to rest and recover before spring training begins in February.
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Rangers' Sebastian Walcott: Finishing strong for RoughRiders
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Walcott is slashing .338/.456/.473 with two home runs, eight steals, a 16.7 percent walk rate and an 11.1 percent strikeout rate in his last 74 at-bats for Double-A Frisco.
The pitching at Double-A is pretty watered down at this time of year, but it's still notable that Walcott is closing the year strong after he slumped for a couple months from mid-June through mid-August, when he logged a .581 OPS. On the year, the toolsy Bahamian infielder is slashing .251/.353/.386 with 13 home runs, 32 steals, a 12.9 percent walk rate and a 19.8 percent strikeout rate in 120 games as easily the youngest qualified hitter at Double-A -- Nelson Rada is the second-youngest qualified hitter at Double-A and he's almost seven months older than Walcott. It was announced this week that Walcott will play in the Arizona Fall League this year, which should set the stage for a big-league debut sometime next summer. Walcott has started 17 games at third base and 82 games at shortstop this year.
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Rangers' Sebastian Walcott: Seeing time at third base
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Walcott started at third base and went 2-for-4 with three steals for Double-A Frisco on Tuesday.
Walcott, who has played mostly shortstop this season, made his seventh start at third base. All seven have come over the last month. At 6-foot-4, Walcott can be viewed as a slugger first, but the prospect also has a speed component and uses his long legs to eat up distance on the basepaths. The 19-year-old Walcott has 15 steals (caught five times) through 66 games.
Rangers' Sebastian Walcott: Accessing power with regularity
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Walcott is slashing .269/.333/.612 with six home runs, five doubles, four steals and a 17.3 percent strikeout rate over his last 16 games for Double-A Frisco.
The Bahamian phenom is the youngest active player at Double-A and understandably got off to a modest start to the year, but he's accessing his huge raw power with regularity over the past few weeks. Walcott is slashing .249/.341/.449 with eight home runs, 11 steals, an 11.2 percent walk rate and a 22 percent strikeout rate in 47 games for the RoughRiders and he doesn't turn 20 until spring training next year.
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Rangers' Sebastian Walcott: Solid start at Double-A
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Walcott is slashing .245/.363/.372 with two home runs, six steals, a 14.2 percent walk rate and a 21.2 percent strikeout rate in 25 games for Double-A Frisco.
Even though he played five games at Double-A at the end of last year, Walcott, who turned 19 in March, is the second-youngest player at Double-A (behind Ethan Salas), and he's two years younger than the youngest pitcher at the level. He has plus-plus raw power, but Walcott has been making too much weak contact early on (34.5 IFFB%, 31.7 Soft%) as he gets adjusted to this challenging step up in competition. Walcott has yet to play a position in the field other than shortstop in 2025.
Rangers' Sebastian Walcott: Reassigned to minors camp
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The Rangers reassigned Walcott to minor-league camp Monday.
Walcott was one of a host of roster cuts for the Rangers. Slated to turn 19 later this month, Walcott made a great impression at the plate this spring during his few opportunities, going 4-for-8 with three doubles and a home run. He's one of the top prospects in all of baseball and is likely headed back to Double-A Frisco to begin the 2025 campaign.
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Rangers' Sebastian Walcott: Pops homer in return to action
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Walcott (arm) went 1-for-2 with a two-run home run in Thursday's Cactus League game against the Mariners.
Walcott experienced soreness in his arm earlier in the week but recovered enough to enter Thursday's game as the designated hitter. He went on to tally his first Cactus League homer and is expected to be able to return to defensive work in the next few days.
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Rangers' Sebastian Walcott: Day-to-day with sore arm
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Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said that Walcott will be held out of workouts Wednesday and Thursday due to "a little soreness in the arm," Shawn McDonald of the Dallas Morning News reports.
Bochy indicated that the injury isn't serious and the team is just being cautious with its top prospect. Walcott, who doesn't turn 19 in March, is in camp as a non-roster invitee and is projected to begin the 2025 campaign at Double-A Frisco.
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Rangers' Sebastian Walcott: Earns spring training invite
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The Rangers have extended Walcott an invitation to big-league camp during spring training.
Walcott won't turn 19 until March, but the Rangers will let their top prospect get his feet wet in spring training after he slashed .265/.344/.452 with 11 home runs and 27 stolen bases between High-A Hickory and Double-A Frisco in 2024. Walcott is likely headed back to Frisco to begin the 2025 campaign.
The Rangers promoted Walcott from High-A Hickory to Double-A Frisco on Sunday, Shawn McFarland of The Dallas Morning News reports.
With Hickory's season coming to a close Sunday, Walcott will take a step up after producing a .261 average with 10 home runs, 49 RBI, 60 runs scored and 26 stolen bases over 116 games in the South Atlantic League. The 18-year-old is moving up the ranks quickly after signing with the Rangers organization out of The Bahamas in January 2023.
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Rangers' Sebastian Walcott: Mastering tough assignment
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Walcott is slashing .307/.355/.519 with eight home runs, 19 steals and a 24.6 percent strikeout rate in his last 72 games for High-A Hickory.
Walcott received arguably the most aggressive opening assignment of the year for a top prospect, heading to High-A just two weeks after his 18th birthday without ever playing at Single-A. He is the best prospect ever from the Bahamas and a potential first-rounder in fantasy if he approaches his ceiling. He's 6-foot-4, 190 pounds, so there's a chance he'll steadily grow into immense power to go with his plus-plus speed.
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Rangers' Sebastian Walcott: Taking off in June
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Walcott is batting .339/.387/.554 over 14 games for High-A Hickory in June.
The Rangers pushed the 18-year-old prospect with an aggressive assignment at Hickory, and Walcott struggled early. He was batting .195 through the end of May, but his bat has come alive in June. The organization is also exposing the 6-foot-4 shortstop to third base, where he's made nine starts over the last 27 games.
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Rangers' Sebastian Walcott: Aggressive assignment to High-A
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Walcott will begin the 2024 season with High-A Hickory, Jim Callis of MLB.com reports.
While Walcott finished the 2023 season with four games at High-A, it's still surprising to see him assigned to that level less than a month after turning 18 years old, as he never played at Single-A and struck out a lot (32.5 K%) in the Arizona Complex League last season. Known for his extremely loud tools (plus-plus raw power, plus speed), the 6-foot-4 Walcott has superstar upside if he can keep the strikeouts in check, but that could prove difficult this season as the youngest player in the South Atlantic League.
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