Keith Law, senior baseball writer for the Athletic, joined the K&C Masterpiece to talk about his thoughts on the Rangers moving on from Nathaniel Lowe for Jake Burger this offseason, why he's so high on Rangers prospect Sebastian Walcott in his recent prospect rankings, and more!
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00:00And I specifically want to start with Walcott if we can because we all love your work and
00:20that's why we wanted to go with you and everybody has Sebastian Walcott, you know, like 20 give
00:24or take whatever. And you specifically mentioned in your capsule he is underrated. For people
00:30who haven't read the article, please go do. You can check him out at The Athletic. But
00:34for people haven't seen it yet, can you kind of give an idea of why you think he's underrated?
00:40I'm not entirely sure other than maybe he, you know, maybe people don't realize just
00:46what he did, how young he was for his level. He was 18 in high A last year, one of only
00:52two players anywhere in the minors, sorry, three players in all of the minors to do that.
00:57And after a slow start, he started raking there and they moved him up to double A and
01:01he continued to perform. He outperformed the other two 18 year olds who were starting at
01:07those advanced levels. And he's barely begun to scratch the surface of who he can be as
01:12a player. Like when I talk to people inside the industry, it's pretty consistent. Like
01:17Walcott's a superstar. Like originally when I started sending out iterations of this list,
01:22I didn't have the top 10 ranked. They just kind of had them in groups and tiers and everyone
01:27said, Oh no, we'll move Walcott up. Like what should Walcott be? One, two, three. I don't
01:32know who's got him at 20. I'm not criticizing anyone else's list, but I think that where
01:36I have him is very much in line with where major league front offices have him. They
01:40see an absolute superstar who's going to get to the majors probably when he's 20. I mean,
01:45he could even get there when he's still 19 and it's power. It's probably going to be good
01:49defensive third. If he has to go to the outfield, it'll be good defense there. It's an advanced
01:53approach. It's great makeup. What is, what does he not do that would make you question
01:59putting him? Let's say, look, someone has him five instead of two. I'm not going to argue that.
02:03But he's clearly one of the very, very best prospects in baseball.