Rangers to promote Carter to Triple-A on top prospect’s birthday

How’s that for a birthday current? Rangers high prospect Evan Carter — who turns 21 on Tuesday — is being promoted to Triple-A Round Rock on his birthday, the membership introduced. 

MLB Pipeline’s No. 8 total prospect, Carter has hit .284/.411/.451 with 12 homers in 97 video games with Double-A Frisco this season.

Since coming off the injured listing from a nagging hand harm on June 21, Carter has hit .290/.417/.500 with a .917 OPS in 56 video games. He admitted the hand harm — which he suffered after being hit by a pitch in May — affected him greater than he realized and he might have used the break a bit of sooner.  

The Rangers’ second-round choose within the 2020 Draft, Carter has had a protracted journey from being a Elizabethton, Tenn., excessive schooler. He was not listed on MLB Pipeline’s Top 200 Prospects or Baseball America’s Top 500 getting into the Draft. The choose was extensively criticized by a lot of the baseball group.

The outfielder has continued to show the doubters mistaken ever since. 

Carter was the Rangers’ Minor League Player of the Year in 2022, slashing .295/.397/.489 with 21 doubles, 10 triples, 12 house runs, 28 steals and 73 RBIs between High-A Hickory and Double-A Frisco. He additionally received a Minor League Gold Glove Award in middle area.