The White Sox are sending nine players to the Arizona Fall League this year, and four names stand out above the rest as the ones fans should keep closest tabs on. With the Winston-Salem Dash having finished a championship run on Tuesday night and the lower minors now wrapped up, the AFL becomes the next stage for a few of the organization’s most intriguing young pieces.
Caleb Bonemer is the headliner. The 20-year-old has already piled up 37 home runs across High-A and Double-A, putting himself among the most dangerous slugging prospects in baseball.
He’s been an infielder by trade, but the White Sox have recently been giving him work in the outfield while they sort out his long-term defensive fit. On the Arizona Fall League roster, he’s listed as an outfielder, so that’s where he should get most of his playing time.
That extra run in the grass is a big part of why he’s there, and he’ll be one of the most visible prospects in the league this fall. White Sox fans could be looking at a big league debut as soon as 2027.
RHP Pierce George is a different kind of watch item, but an important one. The former 13th-round pick wasn’t exactly a household name before this season, yet he’s forced his way onto the radar with a much better year.
After struggling badly in Kannapolis in 2025, George turned in a 3.68 ERA across three levels in 2026. He’s now a full-time reliever with a fastball that reaches triple digits, plus a curveball and cutter that both grade at least average.
The big issue is command, but the White Sox have moved him quickly, even getting him to Triple-A Charlotte for the final couple weeks of the season. Arizona will give him more innings, and he should be in big league camp with a chance to work his way into the bullpen mix as soon as mid 2027.
Anthony DePino is another bat the White Sox clearly believe in. Drafted in the 7th round in 2025 out of Rhode Island, he didn’t do much in 29 games at Kannapolis to finish last season, but the organization sent him to Winston-Salem to open 2026 and got an early return.
A strong start earned him a jump to Double-A Birmingham, and he finished with a .262 average, 25 home runs and an .844 OPS between the two stops. He also posted 128 strikeouts and 64 walks in 125 games, which the White Sox can live with.
DePino’s exit velocities are among the best in the system, and the club believes he can be a big league-caliber hitter. The concern is the glove, since his defensive limitations cap the overall profile and he’s been mostly confined to first base as a pro.
Arizona will give him another chance to keep mashing.
Colby Shelton rounds out the group. The White Sox took him one round before DePino in the 2025 draft, and at 23, he’s on a similar timetable.
Shelton opened the season in Winston-Salem and torched the level with a 1.125 OPS in 31 games before moving up. Double-A was a rougher landing at first, but he settled in and finished with solid numbers.
For the season, he posted an .826 OPS with 24 homers across the two levels, along with a strikeout-to-walk profile similar to DePino’s. The difference is where Shelton fits defensively: his home looks more likely to be in the middle infield, and he’s spent most of his time at second base this year.
Now he heads to Arizona to keep working against upper-level pitching, with an eye on reaching the big leagues by the end of 2027.
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