Texas Rangers right-hander Caden Scarborough is headed to the MLB Futures Game, another clear sign that his stock is climbing fast.
Major League Baseball announced the Futures Game rosters on Wednesday, and Scarborough was the lone Rangers player picked. The game is set for the Saturday before the All-Star Game, and if Scarborough gets the start, he would become the second Rangers prospect in three years to do so.
The selection fits the numbers. Scarborough, Texas’ No. 2 overall prospect according to MLB Pipeline, has put together a season that looks good on its own merits, not just because of his ranking.
In seven starts at High-A Hub City, he has gone 0-4 with a 3.86 ERA. Over 23.1 innings, he has struck out 29, walked eight and allowed 19 hits.
Opponents are batting .229 against him, and he owns a 0.76 WHIP.
That production has been steady enough to point toward a move to Double-A Frisco after the All-Star break.
Scarborough’s path this season has not been a straight line. He got a late start after being diagnosed with malignant melanoma on his neck and having surgery before heading to Surprise, Ariz.
The operation delayed his spring ramp-up, and he did not appear in a minor league game until May. Texas then gave him two starts at its Arizona Complex League affiliate before sending him to Hub City, where he finished last season.
The 2023 sixth-round pick has long carried a reputation for missing bats and limiting walks, and that trait has become even more pronounced since he entered the system in 2024. Last season, between Class-A Hickory and Hub City, he made 22 appearances, 21 of them starts, and posted a 2-5 record with a 2.45 ERA. He struck out 114 and walked 21 in 88 innings, while opponents hit just .181 against him and he finished with a 0.88 WHIP.
That kind of jump has made him one of the Rangers’ fastest-rising prospects over the past year. Around this time in 2025, he was sitting near the bottom of the club’s Top 30 list. Two strong months later, he’s firmly on the radar as a prospect to keep an eye on for the majors as early as next year.
Texas also sent infielder Sebastian Walcott to the Futures Game in 2025 in Atlanta. Walcott, the Rangers’ No. 1 prospect, is recovering from UCL surgery after an elbow injury in spring training.
Walcott was in the Futures Game in 2024 as well, when it was played at Globe Life Field in Arlington, the same park that hosted the All-Star Game that season. He was joined then by pitching prospects Winston Santos and Emiliano Teodo, who started that game. Santos made his MLB debut on Wednesday in Cleveland, while Teodo is still waiting for his first chance in the majors.
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