{"id":568813,"date":"2026-02-12T20:25:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/568813\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T20:25:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:25:45","slug":"rangers-lose-top-prospect-infielder-sebastian-walcott-to-ucl-injury-and-surgery-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/568813\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers lose top prospect, infielder Sebastian Walcott, to UCL injury and surgery | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) \u2014 Top prospect Sebastian Walcott of the Texas Rangers is having elbow surgery, and the infielder is expected to miss most of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers president of baseball operations Chris Young said Thursday that Walcott has a UCL injury and was experiencing elbow discomfort. He could be back by the end of the season but it&#8217;s too early to tell.<\/p>\n<p>kAm%96 `h\\J62C\\@=5 (2=4@EE \ud83d\ude00 E96 }@] f AC@DA64E \ud83d\ude15 32D632==[ k2 9C67lQ9EEADi^^HHH]&gt;=3]4@&gt;^&gt;:=3^AC@DA64ED^E@A`__^D632DE:2?\\H2=4@EE\\g_ehecQm244@C5:?8 E@ |{q !:A6=:?6k^2m] w6 9:E ]add H:E9 `b 9@&gt;6 CF?D[ dh #qxD 2?5 ba DE@=6? 32D6D 2E s@F3=6\\p uC:D4@ =2DE J62C]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAm(2=4@EE C646:G65 2 ?@?\\C@DE6C :?G:E6 E@ DAC:?8 EC2:?:?8]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>k9C ^m<\/p>\n<p>kAmp! |{qi k2 9C67lQ9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@&gt;^&gt;=3Qm9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@&gt;^&gt;=3k^2mk^Am<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) \u2014 Top prospect Sebastian Walcott of the Texas Rangers is having elbow surgery, and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,4,3618,149,1567,69,3240],"class_list":{"0":"post-568813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-national_sports","11":"tag-rangers","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-rangers","14":"tag-texasrangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116059543836679938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}