Prospect Project Unfinished: Your (sorta) 2020 SSS Top Prospects

Last year, we did complete our Top 50 Prospect vote, which is a key feeder into our longer Top 100 Prospect countdown (a year ago, the former ran on SSS, the latter at South Side Hit Pen):

1. Luis Robert
2. Michael Kopech
3. Nick Madrigal
4. Andrew Vaughn
5. Dane Dunning
6. Zack Collins
7. Jonathan Stiever
8. Luis Basabe
9. Gavin Sheets
10. Blake Rutherford
11. Micker Adolfo
12. Matthew Thompson
13. Andrew Dalquist
14. Yermín Mercedes
15. Benyamin Bailey
16. Danny Mendick
17. Luis González
18. Jimmy Lambert
19. Tyler Johnson
20. Ian Hamilton
21. Jake Burger
22. Zack Burdi
23. Andrew Perez
24. Codi Heuer
25. Konnor Pilkington
26. DJ Gladney
27. Bernardo Flores Jr.
28. Yolbert Sánchez
29. Bryce Bush
30. Will Kincanon
31. Bennett Sousa
32. José Rodriguez
33. Matt Foster
34. Alec Hansen
35. Seby Zavala
36. James Beard
37. Lenyn Sosa
38. Bryan Ramos
39. Kade McClure
40. Avery Weems
41. Craig Dedelow
42. Caleb Frare
43. Kodi Medeiros
44. Ronaldo Guzman
45. Caleb Freeman
46. Sammy Peralta
47. Harvin Mendoza
48. Luis Mieses
49. Jacob Lindgren
50. Logan Glass

As for the actual Top Prospect list for 2020, which incorporates not only our SSS crowdsourced vote but individual staff writer lists and expert lists outside of our site (FanGraphs, MLB Pipeline, etc.), we only officially wrote up (from 100) to No. 45 (Craig Dedelow) before the minor league season was called off and rendered the remaining list a little moot.

(Yes, you’ll note the rankings don’t exactly correlate between the list below and our ranking at SSHP. Listen, man, numbers aren’t my strength. They didn’t play the season, anyhow.)

So, while you can read all the writeups on the bottom of the Top 100 list, ending at Dedelow, the full list was never published.

So here you go, the full list, including all the guys we didn’t get around to writing up:

South Side Sox Top 100 Prospects (2020)

1. Luis Robert (unanimous)
2. Michael Kopech
3. Andrew Vaughn
4. Nick Madrigal
5. Jonathan Stiever
6. Dane Dunning
7. Zack Collins
8. Luis Basabe
9. Micker Adolfo
10. Matthew Thompson
11. Gavin Sheets
12. Blake Rutherford
13. Andrew Dalquist
14. Luis González
15. Jimmy Lambert
16. Tyler Johnson
17. Ian Hamilton
18. Codi Heuer
19. Danny Mendick
20. Bernardo Flores Jr.
21. Yolbert Sánchez
22. Konnor Pilkington
23. Zack Burdi
24. Yermín Mercedes
25. Jake Burger
26. Benyamin Bailey
27. Lenyn Sosa
28. Bryce Bush
29. DJ Gladney
30. James Beard
31. Seby Zavala
32. José Rodriguez
33. Bryan Ramos
34. Andrew Perez
35. Matt Foster
36. Bennett Sousa
37. Alec Hansen
38. Will Kincanon
39. Luis Mieses
40. Kade McClure
41. Caleb Frare
42. Jacob Lindgren
43. Craig Dedelow
44. Avery Weems
45. Kodi Medeiros
46. Ronaldo Guzman
47. Johan Dominguez
48. Zach Remillard
49. Sammy Peralta
50. Taylor Varnell
51. Jason Bilous
52. Chase Krogman
53. Caleb Freeman
54. Caberea Weaver
55. Harvin Mendoza
56. Lency Delgado
57. Anderson Comas
58. McKinley Moore
59. Laz Rivera
60. Logan Glass
61. Elijah Tatís
62. Blake Battenfield
63. Tyler Osik
64. Kelvin Maldonado
65. Lincoln Henzman
66. Johnabiell Laureano
67. Kyle Kubat
68. Vince Arobio
69. Zach Thompson
70. Yoelvin Silven
71. Austin Conway
72. Victor Torres
73. Luis Curbelo
74. Manuel Veloz
75. Alex Destino
76. Tyler Frost
77. Dan Metzdorf
78. John Parke
79. Joel Booker
80. Anthony Coronado
81. Ian Dawkins
82. Cristian Mena
83. Matt Tomshaw
84. Camilo Quinteiro
85. Garvin Alston Jr.
86. Josue Guerrero
87. Corey Zangari
88. Sam Abbott
89. Luis Ledo
90. Carlos Perez
91. Spencer Adams
92. Hansen Butler
93. Harold Diaz
94. Hunter Schryver
95. Jefferson Mendoza
96. Misael González
97. Lane Ramsey
98. Wilber Sánchez
99. Danny Dopico
100. Wilber Perez

The purpose for getting this administrative duty out of the way is that we’re about to embark on our next season of Top Prospect Voting, which will begin tomorrow. Next week, we’ll begin our Top 100 Prospect writeups, again counting up the list from No. 100.

The plan is to publish a prospect poll for you to vote on pretty much every day until we hit No. 50. In the case of the Top 100, we’ll try to hit it on a daily basis; if word leaks that the minor league season is being staggered and won’t start till, say, May 1, things may slow down a bit.

There will be a lot of changes to this year’s list. By quick and dirty count, at least a dozen players from last year’s Top 100 either graduated or were released from the White Sox organization. With the reduction in forces caused by the loss of Great Falls, this means this year’s Top 100 will cover more than half of all players in the White Sox system.

So, to a final point.

You may wonder why we write these stories. We catch considerable hell, it seems, from the South Side elites who want to mock the notion that we profile, and vote on, guys who may never sniff the majors.

“WHO CARES” amirite?

Well, we care.

We love these stories.

With Great Falls out of the picture (RIP Voyagers), we have at least one writer, often multiple, in every White Sox affiliate city. Photographers, too. So yeah, we care about this stuff.

It isn’t even about the promise of the player, or the likelihood he’ll make more lifetime impact on the baseball diamond than he will in coaching, bartending, teaching, plumbing, accountancy, doctoring, or retail. Each player has a baseball story. We wish to share it with you.

If a single, short story — which you are, as always, free to skip — once a year, about a guy you’ve never heard of or possibly never wanted to know about, forces you to comment here or elsewhere about how silly we are, well, perhaps this isn’t the diehard White Sox site for you.

For everyone else, welcome to prospect season. I’ll hand the mic to Year of the Hamster to get the Prospect Poll rolling, and away we go.