White Sox place four prospects in the Top 100

Is the system better overall? Maybe. Are there more superstar prospects? Yes

MiLB Pipeline, MLB’s official minor league rating group, has placed four White Sox in their Top 100 baseball prospects in their postseason reshuffle.

Noah Schultz remains the top White Sox prospect and the top southpaw pitching prospect in the game. In the prior MLB Pipeline shuffle (post-draft) in August, Schultz was slotted at No. 50.

Just drafted, Hagen Smith is the No. 2 southpaw pitcher in the Top 100 (maybe there is something to the White Sox and their lean toward lefties), bumping up from No. 32 post-draft to 30.

Shortstop Colson Montgomery, on the weakness of a poor Triple-A season in 2024, dropped from No. 9 overall in MLB Pipeline’s January update to No. 37 today. He is now just the 11th-best shortstop prospect in baseball. (In fact, verbiage on MiLB.com still indicates Montgomery’s arrival time in the big leagues is 2024.)

A newcomer to the Top 100, and the first to make it to the majors (albeit the taxi squad) is catcher Edgar Quero. He was not previously ranked, but now sits at No. 63 overall, and as the eighth-best catching prospect in baseball.