Rangers sign No. 4 overall pick Langford

n”,”providerName”:”Twitter”,”providerUrl”:”https://twitter.com”,”sort”:”oembed”,”width”:550,”contentType”:”wealthy”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content material”:”“Obviously, going through my freshman year, I really didn’t have any expectations because I was like, ‘I just want to play on the college stage first,’” the 21-year-old Langford stated Tuesday. “I’d say probably about halfway through my sophomore year when I was playing really well and people started talking and stuff like that, I kind of realized that, hey, I have a really good shot at this.”nnLangford, the No. 3 Draft prospect according to MLB Pipeline, posted a .373/.498/.784 slash line this spring with more walks (56) than strikeouts (44) as well as 21 homers among 52 extra-base hits in 64 games. In three College World Series games against LSU, Langford went 7-for-13 (.538) with two home runs, three doubles and eight RBIs.”,”type”:”text”},{“__typename”:”Video”,”contentDate”:”2023-04-27T21:18:00Z”,”preferredPlaybackScenarioURL({“preferredPlaybacks”:”mp4AvcPlayback”})”:”https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2023/2023-07/07/45da0d9b-b815adf6-a0c4869d-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4″,”type”:”video”,”description”:”Wyatt Langford earned All-American honors as a sophomore, slashing .356/.447/.719 and tying the Gators’ single-season home run record”,”displayAsVideoGif”:false,”duration”:”00:00:50″,”slug”:”2023-draft-wyatt-langford-of”,”tags”:[{“__typename”:”TaxonomyTag”,”slug”:”mlb-draft”,”title”:”MLB Draft”,”type”:”taxonomy”},{“__typename”:”TaxonomyTag”,”slug”:”alexa”,”title”:”alexa”,”type”:”taxonomy”},{“__typename”:”PersonTag”,”slug”:”playerid-694671″,”title”:”Wyatt Langford”,”person”:{“__ref”:”Person:694671″},”type”:”player”}],”thumbnail”:{“__typename”:”Thumbnail”,”templateUrl”:”https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/upload/{formatInstructions}/mlb/cfccpxrnkbgplrem5g6w”},”title”:”2023 Draft: Wyatt Langford, OF”,”relativeSiteUrl”:”/video/2023-draft-wyatt-langford-of”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content”:”Langford’s journey at Florida is what made him into the top prospect the Rangers saw and drafted.nnFrom almost not playing at all during his freshman year to a position change his sophomore year to a top-four Draft pick, the outfielder is ready to hit the ground running with the Rangers and make it back to Arlington as quickly as possible.nn“It all went by so fast, I feel like I was first stepping on the campus in the fall just a few days ago,” Langford said. “I couldn’t have had a better college experience. Even though I didn’t play in my freshman year, that kind of made me who I was. I mean, if I don’t have to go through that, I don’t have that ability to go out there and play for two years. It was my dream and is a dream come true. And it’s gotten me to where I am today.nn“It’s a little surreal right now, but super exciting.””,”type”:”text”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content”:”• Get to know Rangers’ No. 4 choose Wyatt Langford“,”sort”:”textual content”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content material”:”Ask anyone about Langford and some issues will persistently come up. He’s a “self-made” participant. He has a “championship-caliber pedigree.” Those are all phrases that may be used to explain any high quality Major Leaguer in the event you ask Rangers normal supervisor Chris Young, however Langford set himself aside as the kind of participant that Texas is all the time on the lookout for.nn“We think he’s the perfect fit for what we’re building here, who he is as a person, his winning pedigree and certainly the talent as a player,” Young stated. “I think it’s not often you have the opportunity to draft a player as accomplished as Wyatt, and certainly our goal is not to be picking at the top of the Draft ever again. But that said, this was a great year to be picking at the top of the Draft.”,”type”:”text”},{“__typename”:”OEmbed”,”html”:”

some first round batting practice with Mr. Langford pic.twitter.com/EkAZ63ThNX

— kennedi landry (@kennlandry) July 18, 2023

nn”,”providerName”:”Twitter”,”providerUrl”:”https://twitter.com”,”type”:”oembed”,”width”:550,”contentType”:”rich”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content”:”“Some things fell our way to be able to land Wyatt. His pedigree as a baseball player and what he did at Florida is tremendous. I think as we got to know the person, the character, why he’s a successful player, it’s all the intangibles, the things that we love, the things that you see with our big league team. He’s the perfect fit for our organization, and I just couldn’t be happier that he’s a Texas Ranger.””,”sort”:”textual content”}],”contentType”:”news”,”subHeadline”:null,”abstract”:”ARLINGTON — The risk of taking part in skilled baseball didn’t actually change into actual for Wyatt Langford till halfway by means of his sophomore season on the University of Florida.nA Trenton, Fla., native, Langford went undrafted out of highschool and performed simply 4 video games for the Gators throughout his freshman season. It”,”tagline({“formatString”:”none”})”:null,”tags”:[{“__typename”:”InternalTag”,”slug”:”storytype-article”,”title”:”Article”,”type”:”article”},{“__typename”:”TeamTag”,”slug”:”teamid-140″,”title”:”Texas Rangers”,”team”:{“__ref”:”Team:140″},”type”:”team”},{“__typename”:”ContributorTag”,”slug”:”kennedi-landry”,”title”:”Kennedi Landry”,”type”:”contributor”},{“__typename”:”GameTag”,”slug”:”gamepk-717354″,”title”:”2023/07/18 tb@tex”,”type”:”game”},{“__typename”:”TaxonomyTag”,”slug”:”apple-news”,”title”:”Apple News”,”type”:”taxonomy”},{“__typename”:”TaxonomyTag”,”slug”:”mlb-draft”,”title”:”MLB Draft”,”type”:”taxonomy”},{“__typename”:”TaxonomyTag”,”slug”:”mlb-top-prospects”,”title”:”MLB Top Prospects”,”type”:”taxonomy”},{“__typename”:”PersonTag”,”slug”:”playerid-694671″,”title”:”Wyatt Langford”,”person”:{“__ref”:”Person:694671″},”type”:”player”}],”sort”:”story”,”thumbnail”:”https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/picture/add/{formatInstructions}/mlb/rm0uerj0ahc2ydbotyk5″,”title”:”Rangers signal first-round Draft choose Wyatt Langford”}},”Team:140″:{“__typename”:”Team”,”id”:140},”Person:694671″:{“__typename”:”Person”,”id”:694671}}}
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