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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):
- Luis Robert
- Michael Kopech
- Nick Madrigal
- Andrew Vaughn
- Dane Dunning
- Zack Collins
- Jonathan Stiever
- Luis Basabe
- Gavin Sheets
- Blake Rutherford
- Micker Adolfo
- Matthew Thompson
- Andrew Dalquist
- Yermín Mercedes
- Benyamin Bailey
- Danny Mendick
- Luis González
- Jimmy Lambert
- Tyler Johnson
- Ian Hamilton
- Jake Burger
- Zack Burdi
- Andrew Perez
- Codi Heuer
- Konnor Pilkington
- DJ Gladney
- Bernardo Flores Jr.
- Yolbert Sánchez
- Bryce Bush
- Will Kincanon
- Bennett Sousa
- José Rodriguez
- Matt Foster
- Alec Hansen
- Seby Zavala
- James Beard
- Lenyn Sosa
- Bryan Ramos
- Kade McClure
- Avery Weems
- Craig Dedelow
- Caleb Frare
- Kodi Medeiros
- Ronaldo Guzman
- Caleb Freeman
- Sammy Peralta
- Harvin Mendoza
- Luis Mieses
- Jacob Lindgren
- 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)
- Luis Robert (unanimous)
- Michael Kopech
- Andrew Vaughn
- Nick Madrigal
- Jonathan Stiever
- Dane Dunning
- Zack Collins
- Luis Basabe
- Micker Adolfo
- Matthew Thompson
- Gavin Sheets
- Blake Rutherford
- Andrew Dalquist
- Luis González
- Jimmy Lambert
- Tyler Johnson
- Ian Hamilton
- Codi Heuer
- Danny Mendick
- Bernardo Flores Jr.
- Yolbert Sánchez
- Konnor Pilkington
- Zack Burdi
- Yermín Mercedes
- Jake Burger
- Benyamin Bailey
- Lenyn Sosa
- Bryce Bush
- DJ Gladney
- James Beard
- Seby Zavala
- José Rodriguez
- Bryan Ramos
- Andrew Perez
- Matt Foster
- Bennett Sousa
- Alec Hansen
- Will Kincanon
- Luis Mieses
- Kade McClure
- Caleb Frare
- Jacob Lindgren
- Craig Dedelow
- Avery Weems
- Kodi Medeiros
- Ronaldo Guzman
- Johan Dominguez
- Zach Remillard
- Sammy Peralta
- Taylor Varnell
- Jason Bilous
- Chase Krogman
- Caleb Freeman
- Caberea Weaver
- Harvin Mendoza
- Lency Delgado
- Anderson Comas
- McKinley Moore
- Laz Rivera
- Logan Glass
- Elijah Tatís
- Blake Battenfield
- Tyler Osik
- Kelvin Maldonado
- Lincoln Henzman
- Johnabiell Laureano
- Kyle Kubat
- Vince Arobio
- Zach Thompson
- Yoelvin Silven
- Austin Conway
- Victor Torres
- Luis Curbelo
- Manuel Veloz
- Alex Destino
- Tyler Frost
- Dan Metzdorf
- John Parke
- Joel Booker
- Anthony Coronado
- Ian Dawkins
- Cristian Mena
- Matt Tomshaw
- Camilo Quinteiro
- Garvin Alston Jr.
- Josue Guerrero
- Corey Zangari
- Sam Abbott
- Luis Ledo
- Carlos Perez
- Spencer Adams
- Hansen Butler
- Harold Diaz
- Hunter Schryver
- Jefferson Mendoza
- Misael González
- Lane Ramsey
- Wilber Sánchez
- Danny Dopico
- 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.