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.

85
Wes Kath
Third Baseman
Winston-Salem Dash
Baseball Cube Rating 46.75
Simple WAR 0.9
The gap between 2021 prep first- and second-rounders gets wider and wider, and Colson Montgomery ascended rapidly to Triple-A, got Fall League time, and entered Spring Training as a favorite to win the shortstop job. Meanwhile Kath — recall, the infielder the White Sox said they would have taken in the first round if Montgomery was off the board — has floundered. The 2024 campaign was his best, with durability and power on display, but he’s battling more in A-ball than a second round pick ever should.

84
Daniel González
Left-Handed Reliever
Kannapolis Cannon Ballers
Baseball Cube Rating 62.83
Simple WAR 0.2
González is a rare player who gets in a full season of ACL White Sox ball and then gets some extra time at the A-level. Rarer still is a player who dominated in the ACL but then is forced to repeat the level. So the projection on this southpaw is mixed, in that he’s mastered things for the Complex Sox but has been “held down” by the powers-who-be. His late, Low-A work was unimpressive, so 2025 looms as a test to see if he’ll be a riser or an org arm.

83
Mikey Kane
First Baseman
Kannapolis Cannon Ballers
Baseball Cube Rating 51.38
Simple WAR 0.7
Don’t let the position fool you, Kane moves around the diamond in much the same was as your garden variety Danny Mendick or Zach Remillard. And as such, that seems the dream Kane can pin himself to, impressing enough as an everyman to grind his way to the bigs. Early indication, from a spotty health perspective if nothing else, is that the dream is just that.

82
Shane Murphy
Left-Handed Starter
Charlotte Knights
Baseball Cube Rating 65.67
Simple WAR 0.7
The White Sox are fond, apparently, of jumping players straight to the majors from Double-A, but what of a player who seems destined to skip a stop at Birmingham? Murphy labored the year in High-A Winston-Salem but for an emergency June start in Charlotte. Nothing out of the ordinary there. But come September, with Dash stats solid but nowhere near overwhelming, the southpaw skipped right back up to the Knights to finish up with two more appearances. Could be a case of getting the guy more work without a full assignment to the AFL, or maybe the White Sox have marked Murphy for something more.

81
Connor McCullough
Right-Handed Starter
Birmingham Barons
Baseball Cube Rating 61.00
Simple WAR 0.2
McCullough was on a fairly and surprisingly upward trend heading into 2024 — but then was injured for all but four games. He can’t afford to see another season so punted.

Shane Murphy photo courtesy of Winston-Salem Dash.

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