Ranking Texas Rangers’ top 30 prospects: 11-20. Rookie bats thriving in lower levels
On today’s show, I’m talking about my top 10 Rangers prospects. A couple of lefties who have massively improved their stock this season and the top pitcher in this Rangers system having an injury that it seems like they’re not being completely honest about. We talk about all that and more on this episode of Lock on Rangers. Let’s get into it. You are Locked On Rangers, your daily Texas Rangers podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. You are Locked onto the Texas Rangers, the first and best daily Rangers podcast. I’m Bryce Patrick, a crippingly addicted Texas Ranger fan. Cover this team for 12 seasons, including all seven as the founder and host of this podcast. Thank you all so much for making Lockdown Rangers your first listen every single day. If you not already, you can follow me on Twitter at Brycepatrick. You can follow the show at Lockdown Rangers. Hit subscribe on your favorite podcasting platform and on YouTube where the best way you can help grow the show to comment nearly any single thing below. Now, on today’s show, I’m finishing out my top 30 Rangers mid-season prospect rankings, talking about the top 10, a couple of lefties. I’m incredibly excited about a young firecracker in Frisco, of course, Sebastian Walcott, and uh some weird updates or not updates on the health of some of these top Rangers prospect. Before we get into all that, today’s episode is brought to you by Game Time. Download the Game Time app, create an account, and use code locked on MLB for $20 off your first purchase. Now, we left off with the number 11 prospect in this Rangers system. So, we’re starting, we are doing the top 10. The number 10 prospect in my top Rangers prospect rankings at mid-season is a guy who still not for much longer has prospect eligibility. That is outfielder Alejandro Ozuna. the 22-year-old left-handed hitting firecracker outfielder who is in the Rangers major on the major Rangers major league team right now doing uh something doing some stuff and providing some spark showing what he is capable of. Now the numbers overall this season in the big leagues are not all that impressive. In 80 played appearances he’s hitting just 167. The on base is below 300. The slug is below 250. That’s a 515 OPS with just one homer in those 80 played appearances this year. But you look under the hood, you look at the expected stats and not just the expected numbers, but just the overall profile on baseball for what he’s been doing and he has been much much better than what the numbers would indicate. I mean, his actual batting average is 167. The expected batting average is over a 100 points higher than that. His actual slugging percent is 227. expected slugging 442. The launch angle sweet spot has been great for him. The hard hit rate is in the top half of baseball. The bat speed is about league average. The chase rate is really, really good. The whiff rate is really, really good. Strikeout rate is just average. He’s, you know, taken a few too many called strike threes. But, you know, the walk rate has been exceptional. It would be in the top 10% of baseball if he were among the league qualifiers. Defensively, he’s been pretty darn good. the arm strength and the arm value has all been much better than I expected. I still think he’s mostly going to stay in left field, but does a decent job in center field. Also a pretty fast prospect, but just a guy who really brings that energy for sure. He got called up, I think maybe a little bit before he was ready because the Rangers just needed some kind of a spark for this offense. He provided it for a little bit and then uh didn’t really for a long stretch of time. already got his big first big league home run, his first big league hit, first big league RBI, first big league stolen base. This is a guy who I think profiles long-term as more of a fourth outfielder, but a guy who really raised his stock this year and even the last couple of years from a guy who was just not really thought of as even a prospect. I mean, signed out of Mexico. His brother was a big leager for several years, but he didn’t play organized baseball in the States until he was 18 years old back in 2021. He has been a guy who’s put up consistent numbers, gets more out of his tools than what’s on what’s what he should for a guy who’s 5’9. I mean, he is a guy who I think has really really raised his stock and is going to be a valuable player on this Rangers team for not just this year, but for years to come. Number nine prospect in my Rangers top 10 prospects. Cole Drake, the lefty out of WY, the WY, Texas native who has been exceptional. Just downright exceptional this year in two stops between Frisco and Round Rock. Just got called up to Round Rock pretty recently. But what he did in Fris was absolutely outstanding. 12 starts there, 55 innings, 70 strikeouts, 11 12ks per nine to just 3.6. 6 walks brine in a 244 erra. Now, since he’s been called up to Round Rock, it hasn’t been as pretty. The first start was a little bit rough and the second start was a little bit odd with him not getting a whole lot of strikeouts. The first start he went three in a third innings, allowed three earned runs, but struck out six Sugarland Space Cowboys in Sugarland. Then against the Alb Al Albuquerque isotopes, he allowed a home run. Um, which happens in the PCL. pretty homer friendly league, but only struck out two, walked two, but just that one hit, just that solo homer was the only run that he allowed in five innings of work there. He is a guy who does not throw particularly hard, but he gets a lot a lot of swings, misses, including last year, 148 strikeouts in 106 innings. This is a guy who is absolutely murderous on right-handed bats as a left-hander. He’s got a very good fast ball change up combination. He also sports a curveball. That’s pretty solid. The slider needs a little bit of work so he can be better against left-handed batters. Left-handed batters have kind of got the better of him a little bit this year. Um, but still overall pretty impressive numbers for a guy who the Rangers drafted in the 11th round back in 2022 out of Walters State Community College. You may remember Ben Joyce who is the ang that’s on the IIL for the Angels, but the guy who threw 105 miles an hour. That’s the same college where Cole Drake was drafted out of. This was a massive, massive developmental win last year. The Rangers asked him to lose a little bit of weight to get a little bit more athletic and he it led to a whole lot more swing and miss a whole lot more success on the year in 2024. By far a career year is still a little bit was a little bit old for the level. Not not quite old, but just he just turned 25. By the way, happy birthday. You’re old. Literally happy birthday today, Cole Drake. is 25 years old today, but he has been putting up fantastic numbers. I really do think that, you know, his ceiling is a guy who’s a number four or five starter in the big leagues. And I think at the at the worst, the floor is a really, really, really nasty reliever with a lot of swing and miss. I think that fast ball would play up from being in the low 90s. It would maybe go more towards the mid 90s. He’s got some real funk in his delivery. That change up is really, really good. The curveball is pretty good. And if he can get that slider to be more than a fringe average pitch or just figure out some way to attack lefties a little bit better, I think this is a guy who could very easily be a number four start in the big leagues, but the floor right now as someone who is already succeeding a lot in double A and is starting to have some success. We’ve only seen him pitch just twice in AAA, but I think he could definitely have some success there. He’s a guy who’s going to be a part of this Rangers team for years to come. I really like what he’s done this year. I think he’s taken some strides and moved forward from even what he did last year, which was pretty darn good. I mean, last year a 229 erra in 106 innings with 148 strikeouts. That’s incredible. Fewer than three walks per nine, more than 12 and a half KS per nine for a full season. That’s exceptional. And this kid, even though the stuff isn’t as flashy, that’s why he’s probably not going to make a whole lot of top 100 lists. I think this is going to be a good big leaguer for several years. Now, the number eight prospect on this list, Yulfran Castillo, the young shortstop/ird baseman out of Venezuela who really burst onto the scene last year. Not a big money snee, but when you hit over 400 in nearly 100 plate appearances in the Dominican Summer League, people start to take notice. He hit .414 last year in the DSL in 20 games, 96 played appearances. Did not have a home run, but had an on base of 552. 552 in nearly 100 played appearances. That’s not a big sample size, but it’s not a small sample size by any means. He played his last 15 games of the year at the Arizona Complex League, and he did all right there. He hit over 300, 333, a 379 OBP. This is a guy with incredibly advanced feel for the plate um for for the bat. He does not swing and miss a whole lot. Only had 15 strikeouts in 162 plate appearances last year. This year the strikeouts have been a little bit worse. You look at his numbers overall. You thinking, okay, well, he’s a repeating level. He’s 18 years old at the Complex League. You know, he’s got just a 689 OPS. What What are you seeing there? Well, he is still so incredibly young. And you go into his splits and you see well the month of May was really good. He hit 313 with an on base in the 360s 788 OPS. You look at July in 11 games there so far. He’s hitting over 300 at 326. His ops is 824 in 49 play appearances so far this month. But you look at June and he was really struggling mightily in June hitting under 200. The on base was below 250. The sluggy percentage was below 300. a 510 OPS in that month. And even though he still does not yet have a professional homer in 387 played appearances, 88 games, I think he’s absolutely going to get there. I mean, he’s listed at 63, 165 pounds. This is still an 18-year-old. He does not turn 19 until February of next year. He is still very, very young and adding on weight. I mean, this year, he has still been very, very fast on the base path, though. 17 stolen bases in just 19 attempts. And last year he was 10 for 14 in stolen base attempts. So, this is a guy who can play a legit shortstop who is not eventually going to strike out that much. I’d like to see him walk just a little bit more this year um and maybe start to add some weight at the end of this year when he comes in at 19 and is maybe playing full season ball next year. Um, but still overall a good prospect, not having the best season, but really turned some heads last year. And I think there is still some pretty high upside with him. Coming up, we’re talk about the other lefty that started this year in Fris. And another player in Fris who I’ve had on this show that I am incredibly impressed with what he’s done in Fris this year. All that and more right after this. This show is brought to you by Game Time. We’ve all been there. 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Last minute tickets, lowest price guaranteed. Shout out to every mock on Rangers, your first listen every single day. On tomorrow’s show, I’ll be back and talking about this second half. What the Rangers are going to do, what they need to do between this crucial stretch between now and the trade deadline. Now, the number seven prospect in my Rangers Top Prospects is another lefty, the Canadian sensation. H I just absolutely love this kid, Mitch Brat, the 22-year-old left-handed pitcher out of New Market, Canada. He was absolutely fantastic last year and he was even better this year. In Frisco, he has been exceptional. Just downright exceptional. in 15 starts, he is still 3.6 years younger than the average pitcher in the Texas League. I mean, everywhere he’s pitched, he’s been at least three years younger than the average pitcher in that league. When the Rangers drafted him, he was so incredibly young. He was 17 when he made his pro debut back in 2021. He was the Rangers fifth round pick back in the 2021 draft. Um he went to Georgia despite growing up in Canada to be drafted out of the Georgia Premier Academy in Statesboro, Georgia. Um but he pitched in the Arizona Complex League as a 17-year-old. He pitched in down east, you know, nearly four years younger. The average player that year, he had a two and a half erra. Then in Hickory the next year, he had a three and a half erra in 61 innings there. Last year he spent time between Hickory and Frisco. In Fris, he got lit up just a little bit. I saw a couple of his outings and I think he looked better than those numbers would indicate. But this year in 15 starts, a 273 erra, 79 innings pitched, 98 strikeouts with just one and a half walks per nine, 11.2 strikeouts per nine, and just one and a half walks per nine. He does not get beat. He is a crafty lefty through and through. A very good fast ball, a very good change up as well. And the fact that he’s still ranked number 18 on MLB Pipeline’s top 30 Rangers prospect list, it feels insane. I mean, the curveball is not existent right now. I think he could use a curveball or cutter, just another pitch, but he’s got a slider, fast ball change if he only needs those three pitches, and he’s been very good. He sits in the low 90s. He’s got some funk as well. But I mean, these lefties that uh hit their spots, I mean, it feels kind of reductive to just say, “Oh, this is like Cody Bradford because Cody Bradford is 6’5 and has incredibly lanky arms and is just right on home plate when he’s delivering the ball. But Mitch Brad has got some of that in him. He’s only listed at 61 and 190 pounds. He’s little string bean of a kid. Could probably use add a little bit more weight on there. I don’t think he’s ever going to be a guy who’s throwing, you know, 97 98 or whatever, but he has exceptional command. And this dude knows how to pitch. I mean, this is a pitcher. I mean, I love what this kid is about. And even though the stuff, you don’t need just downright incredible raw stuff to be a darn good pitcher. You can do it in a bunch of different ways. And Mitch Brat is absolutely the epitome of that. Very different from the next guy in this list, the number six Rangers prospect, Emiliano Teoto, the 24year-old pitching for Round Rock, or actually um not really pitching right now for Round Rock because he is on the IIL. Now, Ameliano Teoto is a guy who profiles Oh, by the way, back back to the ceiling with Mitch Brat. I really think I feel very confident that he is going to be a number four starter in the big leagues. I think the upside is if he really really puts everything together, maybe number three, but I think the floor is a number five. I think that is a legit big league starting pitcher for years to come. And I think he’s probably going to be a number four caliber starter in a rotation for a long long time. And for a guy who is a lefty who throws 91, 92, 93, that is a great great outcome. Now Million Taylor is a very different pitcher than Mitch Brat. He has been moved to a bullpen role where he has not really thrived this year. It has been a struggle for Ameliano Teoto. He has dealt with some injuries. He had shoulder fatigue in April. Um he hasn’t pitched since June 1st. He was placed on the IIL on June 5th. Um that was uh June 1st was the last time that he’s pitched. So it’s been about a month and a half since he’s pitched. They didn’t specify exactly what he was going on the IIL with. Um but that’s not really ideal. He had been mostly pretty healthy for his entire minor league career. I mean, he didn’t pitch in the states until he was 20 years old. That was in the Arizona Complex League. He had 29 innings there and a 3-3 ERA. He pitched for a full season in down east as a 21-year-old, 84 innings there. Um, pretty healthy. Made 18 appearances in 2023. also had some time in the surprise in with surprise in the Arizona Fall League where he was just an absolutely untouchable reliever with five saves, 11 innings, just three hits, three walks, no runs, 19 strikeouts as a reliever. And then last year in Fris, he was one of the Rangers big breakout pitchers. There were a lot of breakout pitchers last year and with Ameliano Toyota having that incredible year and there were a lot of other guys that had incredible years last year like Alejandra Rosario, like Jack Lighter, like Kamar Rocker, Toyota’s breakout really kind of went under the radar. I mean, last year he had a sub two erra in 86 and a third innings, 11 and a halfks for nine. The walks really got to him. 50 walks in 86 innings. Not what you’re looking for. And that’s why the thought was, “Oh, maybe this kid will end up in a big league bullpen.” Because, you know, when you touch 102 mph and your slerve/slider/curveball is in the 89 to 90 range is registered as a curveball at 90 miles an hour, which pretty much only Jacob Miserowski’s VO band is is around there. Um, but if you’re not able to stay in the strike zone, the change have even made some progress. I mean MLB pipeline has that listed as a plus pitch which I think is a bit aggressive but with all of these injuries with the struggles this year I mean they have his fast ball rate is a 65 pitch on the 80 scale the slider which is a slurve/curve slider he can manipulate a bunch of different ways um depending on what he wants to use it for um that’s listed as a 70 listed as a plus pitch as well. I mean, for a guy who just got a $10,000 signing bonus uh to become pro, that is a hugely great signing and value for this Rangers team. Now, where he ends up long term, I still of the belief that maybe he could end up being a starter, but uh especially with his struggles as a reliever, maybe moving him back to being a starter is a way to get him, you know, closer to back to being on track. I don’t know, maybe injuries are just going to kind of take a large part of this season from him. And when he’s pitched, he hasn’t been particularly effective with round robber. He’s got a 10.1 erra in 16 innings. I mean, he’s got 17 walks in 16 innings. That’s not what you’re looking for. Even with the 19 strikeouts, it’s still not great and almost two and a half home runs per night. It’s been a struggle for Emilo, but the ceiling is still very much there. But coming up, we’ve got five prospects to roll through, including uh quite a few really interesting ones. One of whom has been on this show and is having an excellent season in Fris. Talk about all that and more right after this. Now, the number five prospect in this Rangers system is Cameron, or as he told me on the show to call him, Cam Collie. This is the Rangers third round pick from 2021 out of Barbers Hill High School High School in Mont Belleview, Texas. Grew up as an Astros fan or as a Rangers fan in Astros country. And uh he is a kid who is just an absolute spark plug. Spark plug. He is a super utility player. He is a legitimately excellent defensive shortstop. He is legitimately exceptional defensively at second base. I mean, some of the rangy plays that I’ve seen him make on the outfield grass at second base, just outstanding. He’s also a really darn good defensive short or center fielder as well. This guy plays three premium positions up the middle and he plays them very, very well. He’s also incredibly fast. I mean, this guy is just a menace to society on the base patch. This year, 24 stolen bases in 27 attempts. last year 90% success rate on 30 steals attempted. So 27 steals. The year before that he had 36 steals in uh 41 attempts. Year before that he had 38 steals in 43 attempts. I mean this guy has been running wild for his entire minor league career. And he’s got more power than a guy who’s listed at 510 170 you might think he would have. I mean he has got he’s hitting 250 so far on the season a 326 on base percentage slugging over 400. a 742 ops while playing three different defensive premium positions. That’s exceptional. He also hits lefties really well, an 810 OPS there versus just 7 709 against righties. And in the month of July, he has been really catching fire, hitting over 300 on base north of 360. A 913 OPS with two home runs in 11 games so far this month and four still on bases without getting caught stealing. This is a very, very good player who I think one day could be a big league regular. The floor for him is so incredibly low because even if he doesn’t hit at the big league level, he’ll still have some pop. He’ll still work some decent at bats, but he will be an absolute menace on the base pass right now. I think he’s the fastest guy in this Rangers system. He will play elite defense at some premium positions, and that alone is good enough to get you into this top five. Now, number four on this list, not a whole lot to say about him this year. Winston Santos, the right-handed pitcher. He has pitched twice this year. Unfortunately, he underwent uh he has been on the IIL since April with a stress reaction in his lower back. It was initially supposed to keep him out for 8 to 10 weeks. That was back when he was diagnosed on April 23rd, but we are now at 12 plus weeks. I don’t know exactly when he’s going to come back, but in his two outings for Frisco, I mean, he went five and two/3 innings, struck out 11. That’s right, 11 in under six innings of work. He’s got a special fast ball with great properties. He uses it very, very well. The slider has taken some big steps forward. The change up is looking like a solid third pitch. I still think he ends up as a reliever, but a really darn good one with a fast ball that would get probably into the upper 90s if he moves towards that relief roll. And that slider would not have to be as good, just good enough to get hitters off of that special fast ball. Now, the number three prospect in this Rangers system, I want to talk about him as a pitcher before I talk about the weird situation with him and his injuries. It’s Alejandro Rosario, the Rangers uh fifth round. No. Yeah. Fifth round pick back in 2023 drafted out of University of Miami. He is a guy who’s got three pitches and they’re all potentially plus to maybe double plus. He’s got a fast ball, he’s got a splitter, he’s got a slider. He uses them incredibly well. He was a massive Rangers drafting success. Drafting a guy in the fifth round out of a major college in the ACC with a career college erra of six and a half. You may be excused for thinking, uh, what the heck? This guy walked a batter basically every other inning and had about a strike up per inning, but not anything especially great. But the Rangers saw something there, reworked his delivery, and he was absolutely exceptional last year. The Rangers minor league pitcher of the year, 129 strikeouts to just 13 walks. Yeah. Nearly. He was one strike away strikeout away from having 10 strikeouts for every walk he had last year. He fills up the zone. He pitches incredibly well to righties, to lefties. He does not beat himself. He goes deep into games. He knows his arsenal. And all three of those pitches are great, but they work even better together. And he had a 224 RA. Now, this year, it has been a bit of a weird mixed bag with him. He’s 23 years old. He was expected to go to double Frisco this year. He spent time last year between down a down east and low A and high a Hickory. He actually earned the promotion to Frisco, but then did not pitch. they just shut him down um because he was dealing with a little bit of fatigue. This year he was diagnosed with a torn UCL back on February 23rd. On March 18th, the Dallas Morning News wrote their prospect write up on him saying he was expected to under undergo Tommy John surgery sometime before the start of April. That was March 18th. There were 13 days between then and the start of April. Then on April 7th, we heard this. There’s been a delay more than six weeks. Um, according to the Dallas More News, this is what they wrote on April 7th, which was more than three months ago, three months and 10 days ago, said, quote, “The delay due to an unrelated and undisclosed consideration regarding surgery likely moves his return to the midpoint of 2026 at the earliest.” That was back in April. This is 3 months later. He is almost assuredly going to miss all of 26. Now, they got a quote from president of baseball operations Chris Young in that article and he said, quote, “We are hoping to bring that to resolution soon.” End quote. That was told to the Dallas Morning News recently, according to that article, which was three and a half months ago. We are now almost five months past when he was diagnosed with this torn UCL. We have no update the last three and a half months whether he had surgery, whether he hasn’t had surgery. Why, if he hasn’t had surgery, has he not had it? This is a universal top 100 prospect in baseball and top 50 a lot of different places in baseball America. He was the number 49 prospect in all of baseball before this season. And it’ll be pipeline. He was the number 50 prospect in all of baseball. And baseball perspectus, come on, Grant. He was only the number 72 prospect. I know Grant fought for him to be higher in that BP preseason top 100 prospects list, but the fact that there’s just been nothing for three and a half months on a guy that could be such an integral part of this Rangers future, not just in 2026, but you know, for years to come after that. It just feels incredibly weird and off. And I do not like it. And it just makes me question if there’s something very very wrong here because that really seems like the only explanation. This guy’s ceiling is a number two starter and he could have been filling that role as at least a member of this Rangers rotation. If he was pitching all this year, he might have already been knocking on the door of maybe taking one of those rotation spots from either Kamar Rocker or Jack Lighter. He’s not. And he’s going to be maybe not pitching at all in 2026. So, we’re going to have all of 2026, all of 2025 with no Cody Bradford and with all of it, and maybe all of 2026 with no Cody Bradford or Alejandro Rosario. It just feels super weird and murky, and I do not care for it one bit. Chris Young, please just tell me that he had actually had surgery about a month and a half ago or so and that we might see him at the end of 2026 because for me that’s the best case scenario that I could hope for for a guy who I am incredibly excited for his future if he ever pitches again which I’m hoping he is but who knows at this point. Number two prospect in this Rangers system, Malcolm Moore. The 21-year-old catcher drafted out of Stanford last year, 30th overall, started off his season in a pretty exciting way. I mean, he looked very good for the first nine games that he played this year. And in that month of April, in those nine games, he was hitting 267. He had an on base of 463, slugging 467. Ah, the sky was the limit with this kid. nine walks, just 13 strikeouts, and then a thumb injury happened. And he did not play until June. It was supposed to be about two months. It ended up being a lot longer than that. He he did not start his rehab until June 16th. He played five games with the Arizona Complex League. And then on June 24th, he rejoined the Hub City Spartanbergers. And since then, it has been uh a bit of a slo. He’s only played 26 games so far this season and overall the numbers aren’t great. And in the month of July it’s been just really tough for him hitting just 100 with a 171 OBP um in that month of July. It’s just eight games. So it’s not a big sample size but when you have also a 683 ops in nine games in June where more than half of them were in the Arizona Complex League. I I know there were still rehab outings, but but still it has just been a bit of a rough go of it for him since coming back with that broken pinky. Um it’s just been not exactly what you’re looking for offensively. This the upside is still very very high. I still think he’s dealing with some of the ramifications of that injury, which is why he’s not hitting particularly well, but he’s still at number two at this list because the offensive ceiling is still very, very high. He’s still just 21 years old. He doesn’t turn 22 until the end of this month. The final day of this month is when he turns 22 years old. And he is a much better defensive catcher than the Rangers thought whenever they drafted him. They thought, “Okay, this is going to be a bat first guy. Can he stick at catcher?” Eh, the makeup grades are off the charts, which is what you love to hear from a catcher. And if you’re a catcher who can provide any bit of offense, not not Cal Raleigh level offense because that’s just insane because uh nobody’s doing that but Cal Raleigh. The ceiling is very, very high if you can do that. Now, the number one prospect in this Rangers prospect list, that’s right, it’s Jerome Proofar. Just kidding. It’s Sebastian freaking Walcott. Sebastian Walcott, the 19-year-old double A sensation. He has been doing okay in Fris, and I am ecstatic about it. You may be saying, only okay? W Why are you just ecstatic about this guy who’s the number one prospect in the system, supposed to be a top 10 guy in all of baseball? Because he’s five years younger than the average player in the Texas League and he’s more than holding his own. He has had some special moments out there, including just the loudest sound off the bat I think I may have ever heard in Fris outside of well Jorge Al Farro and Joey Gallow. I mean, and Lewis Brinson had some crazy raw pop, but but this guy is way up there in terms of his tools. Now, in the month of April, he was off to a good start for those first couple months. In April, he had a 766 OPS. In May, he started to tap into that power a lot more, hitting for a little bit, a little bit more average than he did in the other months, but not walking as much, but still four six home runs of his nine on the year came in the month of May and 811 OPS in that month. But since then, it’s been a bit of a down turn downturn for him. He did have 19 walks or just 22 strikeouts with a 367 OBP in 25 games in June. So, the on base was there. He was not getting as many pitches to hit. He was not doing as much damage on those pitches to hit. And then in seven games in July, it’s been a little bit of a struggle for him. A sub 500 OPS, but again, it’s only 34 plate appearances. Not necessarily a big sample size by any means. But this kid has just been so impressive with his raw tools. He’s been playing really well defensively at shortstop. He’s been charged with a lot of errors, but I think most of the errors that I’ve seen have been, you know, a little bit of a heavy hand uh with giving him an error. He’s played 51 games at shortstop this year, 11 games at third base, getting a little bit more work at third base recently um because of the downturn of Josh Young, who I don’t want to talk about right now because we are talking about happy things, good prospects, things that lead to a bright bright future. third base might end up being Sebastian Walcott’s long-term home. But this is a kid with just an insane ceiling and he is still so young and I expect him to marinate at double A all season long. Even if he turns it on in the month of July and he lights it up in August and even a little bit in September, I think he’s going to spend the rest of this year in Double A. And I think that’s great. I think that’s important. I don’t think he’s going to make his big league debut as a teenager like he wanted to. He’s going to have to wait until he’s 20 years old. He doesn’t turn 20 until March 14th of next year because he was born in 2006 and he is already in double A and more than holding his own. This is a guy with an incredibly high ceiling. The highest ceiling I think of any Rangers prospect I have seen since I’ve been doing this in 15 season 15 years of paying attention to Rangers baseball. This is a guy who don’t look past those numbers. Even look at those numbers. Look at what he’s doing. And remember, this is a child, the largest child I’ve ever seen, but still a child who is doing an incredible job with a very, very difficult task assigned to him. And I cannot wait to see what the next few days, rest of this week, and the next few years hold for Sebastian Walcott because the sky is not the limit for this kid. It is the next dimension that is the limit for Sebastian Walcott. That’s going to do it for my top 30 Rangers prospect list. Hope y’all enjoyed it. Give me some feedback. If you think there’s somebody I have way too low or somebody I totally missed and and absolutely whiffed on, let me know in the comments. Let me know on Twitter and on Blue Sky. Thank you all so much for listening and subscribing. And until next time, don’t forget to enjoy baseball.
The Texas Rangers have two lefty pitchers who have dominated AA this year in Kohl Drake and Mitch Bratt. Alejandro Rosario was a breakout star in 2024 but nearly five months after being diagnosed with a torn UCL the Rangers have released no update on if he’s had surgery or not and if not why.
Sebastian Walcott has an exceptionally high ceiling and despite his numbers not blowing anyone away, simply holding his own at 19 years old in AA is an exceptional accomplishment.
Locked On Rangers 2025 midseason prospect rankings
1 Sebastian Walcott SS
2 Malcolm Moore C
3 Alejandro Rosario RHP
4 Winston Santos RHP
5 Emiliano Teodo RHP
6 Cam Cauley SS
7 Mitch Bratt LHP
8 Yolfran Castillo SS
9 Kohl Drake LHP
10 Alejandro Osuna OF
11 Jose Corniell RHP
12 Dylan Dreiling OF
13 Devin Fitz-Gerald SS
14 David Davalillo RHP
15 Paulino Santana OF
16 David Hagaman RHP
17 Elorky Rodriguez 2B/OF
18 Anthony Gutierrez OF
19 Yeremi Cabrera OF
20 Braylin Morel OF
21 Caden Scarborough RHP
22 Izack Tiger RHP
23 Abimelec Ortiz 1B/OF
24 Maxton Martin OF
25 Ian Moller C
26 Paul Bonzagoni RHP
27 Marc Church RHP
28 Skylar Hales RHP
29 Mason Molina LHP
30 Kolton Kurtis RHP
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