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.

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Gil Luna
Left-Handed Reliever
Birmingham Barons
Baseball Cube Rating 63.67
While still (barely) young for the level, Gil Luna returned to Double-A in 2024 and navigated traffic (1.667 WHIP) nicely (2.80 ERA). Whether he was a sloppy pitcher who got very lucky or a skilled craftsman able to elude any trap will be determined by his 2025 campaign, presumably some of which being spent at Triple-A Charlotte.

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T.J. McCants
Center Fielder
Kannapolis Cannon Ballers
Baseball Cube Rating 63.63
As a 16th-rounder, McCants knows he’ll need to take every opening offered, thus post-2024 draft he strapped on his spikes and said put me in coach. The put-in came at Low-A, and McCants’ play was solid if not stunning. It is a long road ahead, but given the overall state of the White Sox outfield, wide open.

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Stiven Flores
Catcher
ACL White Sox
Baseball Cube Rating 59.13
Flores can hit. Can he do any other “catcher stuff,” or even “fielder stuff?” We’ll see. And even as a bat-first backstop, the desert air sapped all power from his stroke in 2024. Flores’ first full-season campaign, at Kannapolis, will paint a more robust picture of his future.

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Tanner McDougal
Right-Handed Starter
Winston-Salem Dash
Baseball Cube Rating 58.75
Goodness gracious, what a rough year for a former high pick (fifth round). McDougal fumbled his aggressive but merited promotion to Winston-Salem in 2024 and choked on it. Demoted to Kannapolis, things were better, but only marginally so from his 2023 year there. McDougal might have to swallow pride and see if a bullpen assignment brightens his prospects, a la another high pick-failed starter, Drew Dalquist. At the moment, there seems to be no upward mobility.

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Bryce Collins
Right-Handed Reliever
Winston-Salem Dash
Baseball Cube Rating 63.33
Undrafted arms can pack a lot of determination and danger, and woe was you if you got in the way of the Collins Express in 2024. His first assignment after signing was Low-A Kannapolis, way too young for the righty. With the Cannon Ballers in the rear view, Collins crushed High-A even better (2.03 ERA, 1.194 WHIP). A UDFA screaming through the system begs an asterisk, but one summer in and Collins plays like a keeper.

Bryce Collins photo courtesy of Bryce Collins/Instagram.

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