Our Sox Populi staff combines their prospect lists each offseason, coming up with the Top 100 players in the system. We’ll be summarizing and counting them up here, five at a time, leading up to the regular season.

100
Luke Bell
Right-Handed Reliever
Winston-Salem Dash
Baseball Cube Rating 62.33
Simple WAR 0.9
Bell went undrafted in 2023 but was almost immediately snapped up by the White Sox and put right to work. For two years, he’s been absolute aces in in the system, although when finally brought up to High-A at the end of 2024 and against age-even competition, he flubbed the audition. Bell is a system wild card/lottery ticket, but so far, so good.

99
Jack Young
Right-Handed Reliever
University of Iowa
Baseball Cube Rating 91.17 (NCAA)
Simple WAR 1.6 (NCAA)
Young fits the profile of a player who was simply too good (look at that Cube rating!) last summer for the Hawkeyes to pass on into the teens rounds of the draft. One of the most intriguing question marks of the 2024 White Sox draft, and among all players in the system.

98
Cole McConnell
Center Fielder
Louisiana Tech (2024 10th Round Choice)
Baseball Cube Rating 63.00 (NCAA)
Simple WAR 4.7 (NCAA)
McConnell losing almost a full season to team suspension in 2023 probably didn’t help an otherwise solid draft profile. Did not make his pro debut after the draft, so we have to wait to see his sweet lefty swing.

97
Drake Logan
Left Fielder
Kannapolis Cannon Ballers
Baseball Cube Rating 37.13
Simple WAR 1.1
Logan is house money, and always has been. Taken as a bit of a flier in the 19th round in 2022, he’s struggled to find his footing as a pro, even to the extent of claiming a sole position on the diamond. There’s a nice combination of power-speed and all-around game, but Logan’s swing-and-miss is extreme, and given his older age in Low-A, unsustainable.

96
Marcelo Alcala
Right Fielder
DSL White Sox
Baseball Cube Rating 67.57
Simple WAR 0.9
Right fielder with the speed for center repeated the DSL in 2024 but will make his debut in Arizona in 2025, just turning 19 by MLB Opening Day. Both DSL summers were very strong, but both had too much much hit-and-miss in the swing to make Stateside success a sure thing.

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