{"id":501593,"date":"2026-02-24T19:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/501593\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T19:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:47:08","slug":"rangers-prospect-sebastian-walcott-has-surgery-out-5-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/501593\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers prospect Sebastian Walcott has surgery, out 5-6 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SURPRISE, Ariz. &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4fa2cf46-09fc-255f-74a1-2a8857b0e671\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tex\/texas-rangers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rangers<\/a> shortstop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5150947\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Walcott<\/a>, who is ranked as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/47684202\/top-100-mlb-prospects-2026-kiley-mcdaniel-konnor-griffin-kevin-mcgonigle-jesus-made\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 5 prospect in baseball<\/a> by ESPN, had elbow surgery and is expected to miss five to six months.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers said the 19-year-old Walcott had an internal brace placed on his right elbow on Monday. The procedure is considered less severe than a full elbow reconstruction, which leaves the possibility of him being able to play at some point this season.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/47684202\/top-100-mlb-prospects-2026-kiley-mcdaniel-konnor-griffin-kevin-mcgonigle-jesus-made\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/mlb_kiley_mcdaniel_top_100_prospects_cr_1x1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Walcott hit .255 with 13 home runs, 59 RBIs and 32 stolen bases at Double-A Frisco last year.<\/p>\n<p>He was a non-roster invitee to spring training before reporting elbow discomfort that led to the surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SURPRISE, Ariz. &#8212; Texas Rangers shortstop Sebastian Walcott, who is ranked as the No. 5 prospect in baseball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-501593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}