Under is an evaluation of the prospects within the farm system of the Chicago White Sox. Scouting stories have been compiled with info offered by trade sources in addition to our personal observations. That is the fifth 12 months we’re delineating between two anticipated aid roles, the abbreviations for which you’ll see within the “place” column beneath: MIRP for multi-inning aid pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning aid pitchers. The ETAs listed usually correspond to the 12 months a participant must be added to the 40-man roster to keep away from being made eligible for the Rule 5 draft. Guide changes are made the place they appear applicable, however we use that as a rule of thumb.
A fast overview of what FV (Future Worth) means could be discovered right here. A a lot deeper overview could be discovered right here.
All the ranked prospects beneath additionally seem on The Board, a useful resource the location gives that includes sortable scouting info for each group. It has extra particulars (and up to date TrackMan knowledge from numerous sources) than this text and integrates each workforce’s record so readers can examine prospects throughout farm programs. It may be discovered right here.
Different Prospects of Observe
Grouped by kind and listed so as of choice inside every class.
A Complete Mess of Depth Guys
Jacob Burke, OF
Ronny Hernandez, C
Sam Antonacci, 2B/3B
Rikuu Nishida, 2B/LF
Riley Gowens, RHP
Mario Camilletti, 2B/3B/LF
Nick McLain, CF
Gil Luna, LHP
Tightly wound and short-levered, Burke has already topped his homer rely from an injury-marred 2024. His fast arms spur pitchers to keep away from him, whereas his bat path leads him to swing inside loads of right-handed spin, spiking his Okay-rate to the flawed facet of 25% since he demolished Low-A pitching in 2023. Hernandez, 20, is a lefty-hitting Venezuelan catcher at Kannapolis whose really feel for the barrel allowed him to hit .272 at Low-A final 12 months, albeit with little or no energy. Antonacci spent two seasons at Heartland CC (IL) earlier than he transferred to Coastal Carolina for his junior 12 months in 2024. He’s a bodily mature, contact-oriented hitter with good really feel for the zone, however little or no energy for a below-average athlete and defender. After highschool, Nishida got here stateside and performed for just a few years at Mt. Hood CC in Oregon, the place his tutorial advisor spoke Japanese and helped Nishida study English whereas he performed baseball. He performed one 12 months at Oregon earlier than he was drafted. Nishida is a blast to observe. He’s a slash-and-dash hitter and 70 runner who performs his tail off on each side of the ball. He’s obtained bottom-of-the-scale energy and is such a tiny athlete that he’d be breaking large league conference if he have been to make it (fingers crossed). Gowens is a depth starter kind out of Illinois who struck out 145 guys in 122 innings cut up between Excessive- and Double-A final 12 months. Chicago’s 2022 eighth rounder out of Central Michigan, Camilletti is a profession .265/.413/.356 hitter within the minors. He’s a superb contact hitter with below-average bat velocity, and he’s comparatively inexperienced at third base and in left subject, although he seems to be good at each in Birmingham. McLain is without doubt one of the many baseball McLains, and is a succesful defensive middle fielder with fairly substantial hit instrument threat. Luna is a lefty reliever who’ll sit 95-96, however he’s walked a batter per inning every of the final two years.
Lefties with Good Breaking Balls
Brandon Eisert, LHP
Garrett Schoenle, LHP
Tommy Vail, LHP
Frankeli Arias, LHP
It is a fairly self-explanatory group. Eisert made his large league debut with Toronto final 12 months; his fastball sits about 89. Schoenle, 26, sits about 93 and had a sub-2.00 ERA at Birmingham final 12 months. Each of them have good sliders. Vail and Arias have 12-to-6 curveballs.
System Overview
For his or her second straight rebuild, the White Sox are working to improve features of their baseball operations infrastructure whereas concurrently hoping to nail the drafts and trades which can be speculated to gas their subsequent contending workforce. The system is displaying indicators of progress, however isn’t about to supply an imminent Goliath.
However that is nonetheless one of many stronger farm programs in baseball, clearly benefitting from what’s now a years lengthy deal with stacking minor league expertise and fencing each main league asset of word, although the group continues to be working to determine an outlined power as they get to the very finish of the commerce parade. Issues on that entrance have been blended, however are trending up. With Drew Thorpe going underneath the knife this spring, and what we’ve seen so removed from Jairo Iriarte and Samuel Zavala, the Dylan Stop commerce hasn’t confirmed to be a unbelievable, on the spot reload. The Erick Fedde/Michael Kopech/Tommy Pham returns drew instant pans throughout the trade (although credit score for signing Fedde — that was the appropriate thought). Whereas Garrett Crochet was clearly extra wanted, the return seems to be just like the work of an org that’s figuring issues out, and it began to handle this method’s still-pressing want for on a regular basis hitters, which ought to at all times be the principle return in a blockbuster deal like that. A wholesome first half of Luis Robert Jr. figures to be their final chew on the apple for touchdown a serious prospect infusion through commerce, however the Sox have (rightly in our view) been holding out for the gives to rise above the Edwin Arroyo and Carson Whisenhunt-fronted packages that appear to have been among the many greatest through the offseason.
The White Sox beginner scouting division runs the Space Codes workforce for his or her area, and the devotion to defending their dwelling turf’s prep expertise is obvious of their willingness to focus on Noah Schultz, Colson Montgomery, Caleb Bonemer, George Wolkow, Blake Larson, and Christian Oppor, who have been all Midwest prospects at one level. They’ve their work minimize out for them in terms of growing usable hit instruments from the positional half of that group. Drafting from the house area is a part of the org’s id, just like the Southeast traditionally has been for the Braves.
This method’s most evident want will take the longest to handle. Bryan Ramos and Javier Mogollon are the uncommon merchandise of a world operation that has turned up little exterior of some painful seven-figure misses on older Cuban expertise, prompting a employees overhaul on the finish of final season. Figuring out that they should construct their very own inside depth from the Dominican Republic, and never simply commerce with the Dodgers for theirs, is half the battle, however will probably be years earlier than the efforts to fill that hole bear fruit due to the best way groups have agreed to offers with gamers a number of years upfront.