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.
The Rangers promoted Walcott from the rookie-level Arizona Complex League to High-A Hickory on Sunday.
At just 17 years and five months old, Walcott will become the youngest player in the South Atlantic League. Walcott received the green light to bypass an assignment to Single-A Down East after he slashed .273/.325/.524 with seven home runs and nine stolen bases across 157 plate appearances in the ACL.
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