{"id":572054,"date":"2026-02-14T11:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/572054\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T11:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:34:24","slug":"friday-morning-rangers-things-lone-star-ball-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/572054\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday morning Rangers things | Lone Star Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Good morning, LSB.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Rangers were dealt a fairly devastating blow Thursday as top prospect Sebastian Walcott <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2026\/02\/12\/texas-rangers-prospect-sebastian-walcott-elbow-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will miss most or all of the 2026 season due<\/a> to a UCL tear. Woof.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Walcott will reportedly undergo surgery <a href=\"https:\/\/alldlls.com\/texas-rangers-sebastian-walcott-injury-elbow-surgery\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the coming days<\/a>, though there\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Frangers%2Fnews%2Fsebastian-walcott-elbow-surgery-2026-season\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">still some stuff to be discussed<\/a> with ol\u2019 Dr. Meister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There\u2019s also enough injury news elsewhere<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2026\/02\/12\/texas-rangers-injury-updates-emiliano-teodo-marc-church\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> to warrant an Evan Grant injury update<\/a> 4 days into camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Rangers bullpen hand Chris Martin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2026\/02\/12\/texas-rangers-closer-chris-martin-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has the inside track<\/a> on the closer role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jacob deGrom is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2026\/02\/12\/texas-rangers-jacob-degrom-spring-training-homer-rate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">back on the mound<\/a> after his stellar 2025 and still looking to get better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">MLB Pipeline takes a guess at each team\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Frangers%2Fnews%2Fprojecting-each-team-s-top-prospect-in-2028\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">top prospect in 2028.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And Grant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2026\/02\/12\/live-texas-rangers-insider-evan-grant-answers-questions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">did a live Q&amp;A segment here<\/a> where he answered early spring training questions from Rangers fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That\u2019s all for this morning. Happy Friday!<\/p>\n<p>See More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lonestarball.com\/texas_rangers_news_links\" class=\"_153sp3o9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rangers morning links posts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, LSB. The Rangers were dealt a fairly devastating blow Thursday as top prospect Sebastian Walcott will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,4,149,39144,1567,69,3240],"class_list":{"0":"post-572054","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-rangers","11":"tag-rangers-morning-links-posts","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-rangers","14":"tag-texasrangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116068775609356053","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572054","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=572054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}