Examining the White Sox 2025 MLB Draft Prospects
It’s hard to believe that the middle of June has arrived and the White Sox are playing… decently.
However, don’t start planning on any postseason ticket sales at this point in time; realistically, the only way the Pale Hose are making the playoffs this year is through His Holiness Pope Leo XIV talking really hard to his Boss.
All that remains of the 2025 regular season is to make each game a chance for this organization to get better and make plans for the 2026 season to plan on getting out of the American League cellar.
With the Fourth of July just around the corner, it’s time to really start thinking hard about the Major League Baseball amateur draft coming up in mid-July.
The Chicago White Sox sit in the tenth spot in the draft’s first round; that peculiar spot means the Sox have a legitimate shot at drafting one of the top-tier prospects in this year’s draft.
However, it means that potentially nine other prospects will be off the draft board before the White Sox ever get a chance to pick up some new talent for the franchise.
Will the Sox pull a trade deal and give up potential second or third-round picks to move up the draft order, or will sitting in the number ten spot be good enough to build up the farm system for the near future? If you’ve had the privilege of watching the NCAA men’s college baseball tournament from the regionals to super-regionals, you’ve been exposed to some of the best future MLB players out there.
While there is still a chance that a top high school prospect can and will make it to the Show, the trend towards older, more experienced college players appears to be growing.
LHP Jamie Arnold Is a Dream Draft Choices for the White Sox – And Everyone Else as Well
Watching the Florida State Seminoles battle it out in the Super Regionals against Oregon State was like watching the future who’s who of Major League Baseball. The White Sox could potentially gain a bit of luck in the upcoming draft order and land LHP Jamie Arnold.
Again, this may be realistically little more than a pipe dream, since Arnold sits at number four on the MLB top ten draft list this season, and in all likelihood, other franchises will pick him up; why not?
Arnold is 6’1, 188 pounds, a lefty with great control, and through the regular season led Division I baseball programs with 119 strikeouts to only 27 walks given up. Again, drafting Arnold is really more of a “wish list” than a legitimate shot at one of the premier leftie pitchers in the country. Still, with Florida State’s stumble before the College World Series, Arnold’s draft stock may take a bit of a tumble as well, and that could directly benefit the White Sox in the first round of the draft.
Are We Dreaming Again? Could the White Sox Land LHP Kade Anderson?
The MLB draft is a peculiar function of having big league teams fight between high school and college baseball talent. Despite the scouts’ best efforts, a team really doesn’t know for sure how a prospect will turn out or if they’ll make it to the Show.
In the case of LHP Kade Anderson, it’s pretty certain that if he stays healthy, he’ll be pitching in the big leagues in no time.
Anderson is still kind of busy right now with the Men’s College World Series starting up, and the LSU star hurler did have the NCAA Division I strikeout lead with 156 K’s going through the regionals. Throwing a 9-1 record with a 3.28 ERA at the college level, Anderson helped the Tigers through the super regionals, and now it’s on to Omaha and destinations unknown as Anderson currently sits in the number four spot on the MLB draft prospect order.
Again, the White Sox drafting Anderson is unlikely but still possible, and his performance in the College World Series will help determine his final draft standing. (Contributor’s Note: If you want a chance to see Kade Anderson in action, check out the Men’s College World Series-Anderson was brilliant in his first game in Omaha.)
Could the White Sox Go After a Catcher/Outfielder?
Yes, you read the above heading correctly, since that’s exactly what Auburn C/OF Ike Irish is, after watching him in the regionals and super regionals. I’m intrigued by his skill set. The next question, of course, is, aren’t the White Sox set for catchers in the Show and in the farm system? The answer to that is that you can never have enough players who can both strap on the “tools of ignorance” and then play in the outfield the next day, and Ike Irish can do that for the White Sox. Irish is 6’2, 201 pounds and bats left-handed, with a .364 batting average, a .469 OBP, 19 home runs, and 11 stolen bases. Irish should be turning heads at this point in the upcoming draft.
Irish sits at number twenty-one in the MLB draft prospect order right now, and this may very well be an opportunity for the White Sox to pick up a multi-tiered player who’s just outside the top radar zone.
If anything, a player who can play behind the plate or the outfield, hit homers, and steal bases is someone certainly to look at in the upcoming draft, and Irish as a draft prospect is clearly enticing for the White Sox if they do pass on him, no doubt another MLB franchise will see the value in a C/OF who can hit and steal bases.
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