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Folks, there’s a guy in the Texas Rangers’ organization from the Bahamas that you may have heard of. His name is Sebastian Walcott. He is 19 years old and plays shortstop.
Now, you may be saying to yourself, a baseball player from the Bahamas? Get out of here with your crazy self. They don’t play baseball in the Bahamas!
However, you’d be wrong. They do play baseball there! Granted, there’s not a lot of players in MLB history from the Bahamas — just nine of them, in fact. Someone named Andre Rodgers is the player from the Bahamas with the longest career, playing 854 games from 1957-67. Jazz Chisholm, Jr. is second, at 579 games.
Third is Ed Armbrister. He is best known for a World Series bunt where he maybe should have been called for interfering with Carlton Fisk, but wasn’t, in the bottom of the tenth inning of Game 3 in 1975. It led to Joe Morgan hitting a walkoff single off of Roger Moret for a Reds victory. Had he been called for interference, maybe the Reds don’t score that inning, the Red Sox end up winning, and Carlton Fisk’s legendary Game 6 home run would have won the series for Boston and spared us 30+ years of “Curse of the Bambino” nonsense and a terrible Jimmy Fallon movie.
Anyway, Sebastian Walcott will almost certainly be the tenth. A consensus top 20 prospect in MLB who was solid if unspectacular at AA last year (though solid if unspectacular at AA at age 19 is pretty damn good), Walcott likely will be starting the season at AAA Round Rock. He played some third base as well as shortstop at AA last year, and I expect him to do the same in 2026 for the Express, with maybe some corner outfield mixed in.
Which leads us to today’s question…when do you believe Sebastian Walcott will make his major league debut?
Cast your vote below…