Steele Walker
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| Steele Walker | |
|---|---|
 Walker with the Round Rock Express in 2022 | |
| Outfielder | |
| Born: July 30, 1996 Mount Pleasant, Texas, U.S. | |
Batted: Left Threw: Left | |
| MLB debut | |
| June 5, 2022, for the Texas Rangers | |
| Last MLB appearance | |
| June 10, 2022, for the Texas Rangers | |
| MLB statistics | |
| Batting average | .071 |
| Home runs | 1 |
| Runs batted in | 1 |
| Teams | |
Steele Simons Walker (born July 30, 1996) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played college baseball at the University of Oklahoma, and was selected in the second round of the 2018 Major League Baseball draft. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers.
Walker attended Prosper High School in Prosper, Texas. He played college baseball at the University of Oklahoma for the Oklahoma Sooners.[1] As a freshman at Oklahoma in 2016, Walker played in 57 games, hitting .290/.352/.414 with three home runs and 32 runs batted in (RBI). After the season, he played for the Wisconsin Woodchucks of the Northwoods League.[2] As a sophomore in 2017, he started 59 games, batting .333/.413/.541 with eight home runs and 51 RBI. After the season, he played for the United States collegiate national team and for the Brewster Whitecaps of the Cape Cod League.[3][4] As a junior in 2018, Walker finished with a .352 batting average with 13 home runs and 53 RBI; a strained right oblique muscle kept him out of the team's final eight games.[5] He was a semi-finalist for the Golden Spikes Award[6] and was named to the All-Big 12 Conference's First Team.[7]