Malcolm Moore

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He was a really good hitter when he came back.

They saw their first two picks in the 2024 draft take steps forward in terms of first-rounder Malcolm Moore and then Dylan Dreiling, the second-rounder.

So those guys developed.

Yofran Castillo is coming into his own offensively with more power.

... and it's not just like, it's not universal to him either.

Like Malcolm Moore had a 19% gem rate.

Gary Gilhill has a 21% gem rate.

Uh-

You have Wyatt Lankford, who I know on our last show, we broke him down.

The 2024 top two picks were Malcolm Moore and Dylan Dreiling.

They took steps forward.

The 2025 first rounder, Gavin Fien, he was traded to make room in the deal for McKenzie Davis.

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Now, one of the biggest breakthrough hitters last year was Rangers former first round pick Malcolm Moore.

The Rangers took with the 30th overall pick in the 2024 draft because they won the World Series the previous year.

Always worth mentioning, always a nice reminder when I think about Malcolm Moore, the Rangers picked last in the first round in 2024.

And gosh, I would love them to have some more 30th overall draft picks because Malcolm Moore is at a pretty rough start to his career the first little taste of finally baseball 25 games the year he was drafted he seemed fine offensively three home runs in those 25 games and overall a little overmatched in high a hickory at the time but it wasn't really too much of a thing in 2025 he missed a lot of time with injury a broken pinky that first month he looked exceptional offensively looked like this sweet swinging catcher the defensive abilities were still a bit of a question mark at that point, but the Rangers drafted him based on his makeup, based on the ability that they felt pretty confident this guy was going to be a good hitter, whether he stuck at catcher long-term or he made the move to either third base or first base, probably first base if he couldn't stick at catcher.

There was some hope there with Malcolm Ward that he would be, there was not really a whole lot of doubt that he would be a good offensive player.

But in 2025, after coming back from that pinky injury, the overall season numbers were just, they were bad.

It was just a bad overall year.

They need to improve the catching somehow.

I've liked what Malcolm Moore has done.

He got a lot better at the back end of his season with AA.

He's not going to be ready in 2027.

He's the only one we've ever mentioned, the only one I ever hear mentioned.

Malcolm Moore, who's up at AAA now, has been doing it at catcher, but he needs another season at catcher before you bring him up.

And when you bring him up is when Jansen's gone.

He'll come up, and he'll be your starting catcher, and Ohapi will be your backup.