Baseball America and MLB Pipeline wrapped up their final organization prospect rankings of the season this week, and the White Sox lists line up almost cleanly. The two outlets share the same 10 names in their top 10, with only the order shifting a bit.
Roch Cholowsky sits at No. 1 on both lists, followed by Caleb Bonemer and Billy Carlson. Hagen Smith checks in at No. 4 on each ranking as well.
After that, the boards start to diverge, but not by much. Baseball America has Tanner McDougal at No.
5, Cole Prosek at No. 6, Landon Thome at No.
7, Joey Volchko at No. 8, Jaden Fauske at No. 9 and William Bergolla Jr. at No.
- MLB Pipeline flips a few of those spots, putting Prosek fifth, Thome sixth, McDougal seventh, Fauske eighth, Volchko ninth and Bergolla Jr. tenth.
The bigger story is how much projection still sits inside the system. Three of those top 10 players have not yet made their professional debuts, and another was limited to 11 games. Prospect rankings always carry some guesswork, but this group leaves a lot of room for that guessing game.
Carlson also landed at No. 62 on MLB Pipeline’s Top 100. That isn’t as aggressive as Keith Law’s ranking, but it does show the split in how evaluators view him: some see a player who belongs comfortably in the top-100 discussion, while others leave him out.
On the field, Noah Schultz worked four innings in Rochester’s 5-2 loss to Charlotte. He allowed three hits and one run, with one earned run, no walks, no strikeouts and one home run, while throwing 35 of 48 pitches for strikes. Junior Pérez went 0-for-3 with a walk.
Columbus beat Birmingham 6-2, but Caleb Bonemer made a strong return to the lineup after his three-HBP night. He finished 2-for-4 with a triple and a double.
Samuel Zavala added a 1-for-3 line with a double and a strikeout, while Ryan Burrowes went 1-for-3 with a strikeout and a stolen base. Anthony DePino was 1-for-4 with a strikeout, Colby Shelton went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts, and James Taussig was 0-for-3 with a strikeout.
Shane Murphy took the loss, giving up five earned runs over five innings.
Winston-Salem rolled past Greensboro 9-4 behind Kyle Lodise, who homered twice, singled, walked, struck out and stole a base. Roch Cholowsky added a 1-for-3 night with a double, walk and sac fly. George Wolkow went 2-for-5 with two strikeouts, Jeral Perez singled twice, walked once and struck out twice, Javier Mogollón was 1-for-5 with two strikeouts, and Nick McLain finished 0-for-6 with a strikeout.
Kannapolis edged Hickory 4-3, with Jaden Fauske going 1-for-4 with a double and a strikeout. Matthew Boughton was 0-for-3 with a walk, Alexander Albertus went 0-for-3 with a walk, and Grayson Fitzwater chipped in a 2-for-4 night that included a homer.
In the DSL, the Rockies outlasted the White Sox 19-18 in eight innings. Fernando Graterol went 1-for-4 with a double, walk, HBP, strikeout and stolen base.
Ronald Cardozo was 2-for-4 with a homer, walk, strikeout and stolen base. Felix Lebrom finished 1-for-3 with a double and two walks, Samuel Luis went 1-for-4 with a homer, walk and strikeout, and Sebastian Romero was 0-for-3 with a walk, HBP and two strikeouts.
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