{"id":566925,"date":"2026-02-11T21:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/566925\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T21:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:33:21","slug":"rangers-reacts-survey-when-will-walcott-waltz-into-arlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/566925\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers Reacts Survey: When will Walcott waltz (into Arlington)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Rangers fans and fans across the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsurvey.co.uk\/s\/0DWS6R\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up here<\/a> to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Folks, there\u2019s a guy in the Texas Rangers\u2019 organization from the Bahamas that you may have heard of. His name is Sebastian Walcott. He is 19 years old and plays shortstop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now, you may be saying to yourself, a baseball player from the Bahamas? Get out of here with your crazy self. They don\u2019t play baseball in the Bahamas!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">However, you\u2019d be wrong. They do play baseball there! Granted, there\u2019s not a lot of players in MLB history from the Bahamas \u2014 just nine of them, in fact. Someone named Andre Rodgers is the player from the Bahamas with the longest career, playing 854 games from 1957-67. Jazz Chisholm, Jr. is second, at 579 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Third is Ed Armbrister. He is best known for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dRw2_KvHcPk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a World Series bunt where he maybe should have been called for interfering with Carlton Fisk,<\/a> but wasn\u2019t, in the bottom of the tenth inning of Game 3 in 1975. It led to Joe Morgan hitting a walkoff single off of Roger Moret for a Reds victory. Had he been called for interference, maybe the Reds don\u2019t score that inning, the Red Sox end up winning, and Carlton Fisk\u2019s legendary Game 6 home run would have won the series for Boston and spared us 30+ years of \u201cCurse of the Bambino\u201d nonsense and a terrible Jimmy Fallon movie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Anyway, Sebastian Walcott will almost certainly be the tenth. A consensus top 20 prospect in MLB who was solid if unspectacular at AA last year (though solid if unspectacular at AA at age 19 is pretty damn good), Walcott likely will be starting the season at AAA Round Rock. He played some third base as well as shortstop at AA last year, and I expect him to do the same in 2026 for the Express, with maybe some corner outfield mixed in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Which leads us to today\u2019s question\u2026when do you believe Sebastian Walcott will make his major league debut?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. 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