Chicago White Sox: Five prospects crack Baseball America’s Top 100

The Chicago White Sox have been grabbing top prospects like crazy for the past year, and Baseball America rewarded them in its Top 100 list.

If you’re a Chicago White Sox fan, you know by now that your newly revamped farm system holds an embarrassment of riches. Truthfully, there may never have been this collection of potential stardom in the Sox minor league system ever.

But in case you wanted a reminder of what all those offseason trades were for last season, let’s take a look at how Baseball America placed the Chicago White Sox’s top prospects in its Top 100.

Hint: they have some serious gold on this list.

If you can’t see the list here, the order goes as follows: outfielder Eloy Jimenez (#4), right-handed pitcher Michael Kopech (#11), right-handed pitcher Alec Hansen (#57), outfielder Luis Robert (#58) and right-hander Dane Dunning (#82).

That’s really, really good.

In particular, Jimenez, Kopech and Hansen might be locks to make their Major League debuts this season. Robert and Dunning won’t be far off, though.

Also, this snapshot of Baseball America’s Top 100 doesn’t even fully capture the depth and talent in this system.

For example, it doesn’t account for the fact that they had the #2 prospect in all of baseball, Yoan Moncada, for most of last year. He is now, of course, looking to lock down an everyday spot on the Major League roster.

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Also, though they’re not Top 100 talents, the Chicago White Sox also have potential Major League regular in catcher Zack Collins, outfielder Blake Rutherford and fire-balling right-hander Dylan Cease. With another year under their belt, they may push to make this list next season.

Finally, Robert may end up being a Jimenez-level prospect by the time the year is out.

For now, the sample size is likely too small for observers to truly know what he’ll do this year, though he put the hurt on the Dominican Summer League last season (.310/.491/1.027, three home runs, 14 RBI, 45 total bases in 114 plate appearances) at age 19.

But his physical tools could make him the best player on the Chicago White Sox not long from now. Also, it’s just hard not to love watching him effortlessly yet violently punishing baseballs.

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White Sox fans have been starving for a winner for more than a decade and have suffered through both agonizing mediocrity and, at times, just purely bad, non-competitive baseball. As such, some of the trades last season may have seemed like a betrayal. Some fans probably questioned whether the franchise even cared about winning another World Series.

But don’t fret. They don’t want to just compete for one World Series and go without sniffing another one for 13 years. They want to put themselves in position to compete for years to come.

And judging by how much talent they’ve stockpiled, the Chicago White Sox could accomplish just that.