Texas Rangers Draft Prep Outfielder in Latest Mock

The Texas Rangers are set to pick No. 4 in July's MLB Draft, which will be held in Seattle during the All-Star break.

The Texas Rangers have the No. 4 pick in July’s MLB Draft and there are a number of different directions in which the organization could go.

Based on a new ESPN mock draft — the site’s first leading up to the July 9-11 draft in Seattle — the Rangers could take a high school right fielder Walker Jenkins.

The Athletic recently had the Rangers also taking Jenkins.

Jenkins plays for South Brunswick High School in Brunswick, N.C.

Per ESPN:

The Rangers have a real conundrum here. The best pitching prospect in a dozen years (LSU’s Paul Skenes) is sitting here, along with the best prep hit/power combo since Bobby Witt Jr. in 2019 (Jenkins). I'm told the Rangers wouldn't hesitate to take Crews or Langford if either of them got here, but they're also believed to love Jenkins and Clark. Given how their last two first-round picks are doing, SEC aces Jack Leiter and Kumar Rocker, I think they'll lean toward the bat this year -- but that's more of a 51/49 educated guess rather than deep intel. I also don't think the Rangers know what they would do if this exact situation were to arise.

ESPN noted the Rangers could also take a run at Vanderbilt center fielder Enrique Bradfield Jr. If so, that would make him the third Vanderbilt player taken in the first round by the Rangers recently, joining Leiter (2021) and Rocker (2022).

ESPN also reported that Rangers general manager Chris Young was recently at an LSU game to see Skenes start.

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