Here are the White Sox 2025 Top 30 prospects

If there's any silver lining to be found in losing an MLB-record 121 games in 2024, it's that it forced the White Sox to embrace a complete rebuild. While it's a long path back to contention, playing for the future has helped revitalize a farm system that came in last in MLB Pipeline's rankings just three years ago.

Just like the last time they did a franchise makeover, the White Sox sent an ace left-hander to the Red Sox for four prospects. They shipped Garrett Crochet to Boston at the Winter Meetings for Top 100 prospects Kyle Teel and Braden Montgomery, contact-hitting infielder Chase Meidroth and enigmatic right-hander Wikelman Gonzalez. Eight years earlier, they exchanged Chris Sale for a package headlined by Yo¨¢n Moncada and Michael Kopech, who didn't fully live up to expectations in Chicago but helped deliver the only back-to-back postseason appearances in franchise history.

Starting with the Dylan Cease trade last March, the White Sox have dealt nine veterans for 13 youngsters, eight of whom reside on our new Top 30 Prospects list. Fourteen players on that Top 30 have joined the organization in the last year, with 2024 No. 5 overall pick Hagen Smith joining Teel and Montgomery on the overall Top 100 from that contingent.

Schultz and Smith give Chicago the two best lefty pitching prospects in baseball, and no system has a pair of catchers more highly regarded than Teel and Edgar Quero (a 2023 trade acquisition from the Angels). All of them, along with shortstop Colson Montgomery, another Top 100 Prospect, could arrive at Rate Field before the end of the season. They won't immediately reverse the White Sox's fortunes but are legitimate building blocks.

Here's a look at the White Sox top prospects:

1. Noah Schultz, LHP (MLB No. 16)
2. Kyle Teel, C (MLB No. 32)
3. Hagen Smith, LHP (MLB No. 34)
4. Colson Montgomery, SS (MLB No. 39)
5. Braden Montgomery, OF (MLB No. 54)
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Biggest jump/fall

Here are the players whose ranks changed the most from the 2024 preseason list to the 2025 preseason list.

Jump: Tyler Schweitzer, LHP (2024: unranked | 2025: 23)
None of his pitches nor his control grade as better than average, yet he's one of the most consistent starters in the system.

Fall: Jake Eder, LHP (2024: 7 | 2025: unranked)
Since he was acquired from the Marlins straight up for Jake Burger in July 2023, his stuff and strike-throwing have gone backward.

Best tools

Players are graded on a 20-80 scouting scale for future tools -- 20-30 is well below average, 40 is below average, 50 is average, 60 is above average and 70-80 is well above average. Players in parentheses have the same grade.

Hit: 60 -- Chase Meidroth
Power: 60 -- Braden Montgomery (Colson Montgomery, George Wolkow)
Run: 60 -- William Bergolla
Arm: 70 -- Braden Montgomery
Defense: 55 -- William Bergolla (Colson Montgomery)
Fastball: 65 -- Hagen Smith
Curveball: 60 -- Mason Adams
Slider: 70 -- Noah Schultz
Changeup: 55 -- Jairo Iriarte (Aldrin Batista, Noah Schultz)
Control: 60 -- Mason Adams

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How they were built
Draft: 12 | International: 4 | Trade: 13 | Rule 5: 1

Breakdown by ETA
2025: 16 | 2026: 4 | 2027: 5 | 2028: 4 | 2030: 1

Breakdown by position
C: 2 | 2B: 2 | 3B: 3 | SS: 5 | OF: 4 | RHP: 9 | LHP: 5