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.

90
Eddie Park
Center Fielder
Winston-Salem Dash
Baseball Cube Rating 51.75
Simple WAR 1.6
Upon being drafted in 2023, Park ranked as perhaps the best of the bat-discipline quicksters the White Sox drafted — the head of a class of new hitting styles for the organization. But while a companion draftee like Rikuu Nishida has flourished and sprinted up the ladder, Park has languished. The reason is fairly simple: The gap power Park flashed at Stanford has deserted him, and without that he’ll have no hope of climbing.

89
Chase Plymell
Right-Handed Reliever
Charlotte Knights
Baseball Cube Rating 49.67
Simple WAR 1.6
Talk about pleasant surprises! Nothing in Plymell’s pro career to date had indicated the breakout that was to come in 2024, as the righty trimmed his ERA to 3.42 and WHIP 1.170. His age-27 season is a bit mature to rush him up our list, but if he holds his own again with the Knights in 2025, he’ll taste the majors.

88
Anthony Hoopii-Tuionetoa
Right-Handed Reliever
Charlotte Knights
Baseball Cube Rating 71.00
Simple WAR 0.2
Hoopii-Tuionetoa has the stuff, even if it hasn’t translated into overwhelming numbers in the system. Among numerous things (the White Sox trading for him last May, for starters), his assignment for extra work in the AFL last fall is an indication the South Siders have big hopes for the hurler.

87
Tristan Stivors
Right-Handed Reliever
Birmingham Barons
Baseball Cube Rating 66.33
Simple WAR 0.1
The Sox took a flier on Stivors in 2022, inasmuch as you can call the NCAA saves leader that season a flier. His closer mentality needed an adjustment in 2024, however, as injury and circumstances conspired to bump the Texan down the ladder and mostly out of game finishes.

86
Pierce George
Right-Handed Reliever
Kannapolis Cannon Ballers
Simple WAR -0.1
We’ll totally admit that George is a pure potential placement on our list, given his six pro innings and 13 in college. But he’s a raw weapon, and a big one (6´6´´) at that.

Photo courtesy of Winston-Salem Dash.

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