Keith Law on the Rangers' offseason moves, prospect rankings

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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.

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