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.

95
Lyle Miller-Green
First Baseman
Kannapolis Cannon Ballers
Baseball Cube Rating 67.13
Simple WAR -0.3

Miller-Green packs an uplifting story, adopted out of Russia and turning his dominating performance at smallish Austin Peay into a 17th Round selection last summer. Miller-Green has a ton of swing-and-miss and may struggle to be anything but a DH, but a similar enough profile in Tim Elko has clubbed his way now to Charlotte and White Sox spring camp, so who’s to cap Miller-Green this early on?

94
Jared Kelley
Right-Handed Reliever
Birmingham Barons
Baseball Cube Rating 35.17
Simple WAR 0.2
Kelley’s full-time transformation to the bullpen didn’t pay the dividends seen in, say, Peyton Pallette, but a relief role is at least a plausible route to the majors for him now. Plausible, that is, if the fiery righty can get the ball over the plate.

93
Adrian Gil
First Baseman
ACL White Sox
Baseball Cube Rating 67.43
Simple WAR 0.9
The good news is that Gil was almost assuredly the second-best batter on last year’s ACL team. The bad is that the Complex Sox were pretty godawful in all aspects of the game. Gil is not anchored to first base and is not an all-or-nothing slugger, two traits that bode well for his immediate future in the system.

92
Adam Hackenberg
Catcher
Charlotte Knights
Baseball Cube Rating 43.50
Simple WAR 1.5
There was a time that Hackenberg’s limited but useful offense and strong work behind the plate put him on a direct, if not fast, track to some majors work on the South Side. With Korey Lee, Edgar Quero and Kyle Teel brought into the organization since then, Hackenberg’s projects as an org catcher who could one day catch on in another system and catapult to The Show from there.

91
Loidel Chapelli
Second Baseman
Winston-Salem Dash
Baseball Cube Rating 61.50
Simple WAR 1.5
Rewind to the first third of 2023 and Chapelli seemed on the fast track to the upper minors, if not possibly the majors. For the balance of 2023 and the entirety of 2024 — all spend twisting himself into the ground at the same spot, High-A Winston-Salem — the mini-mite second sacker has looked like a player lucky to have scored a half-million signing bonus from a team nearly hapless in its international moves.

Photo courtesy of Winston-Salem Dash.

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