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<\/a><\/p>\nPoll Note: We\u2019re getting a consistent 60ish votes each round these days, which is fine to carry forward. If and when the vote starts trickling much lower, we will wind up the competition and move on to daily Top 100 postings.<\/p>\n
So, this win marked Bush\u2019s debut on the ballot, meaning he is just the second player this year beyond No.1 winner Braden Montgomery to win the Vote on his first ballot (also Mathias LaCombe, No. 14). What\u2019s interesting is that while injured players (Bush was out all of 2025 after TJS) usually and understandably slip some in our Vote rankings, Bush this year moved up one slot, from No. 20 to 19. Interestingly, in his ballot debut in 2024, Bush also finished 19th.<\/p>\n
The win makes for 11 of 19 pitching prospects advancing to date. And somewhat astoundingly even in the White Sox system, SEVEN of the first 19 prospects to advance in our Vote has been southpaw starters:<\/p>\n
Past No. 18s in the SSS Top Prospect Vote During this past Vote the White Sox acquired a top pitching prospect via the Rule 5 draft, Jedixson Paez. Of course, they also lost a prospect who has already moved on in the voting, Peyton Pallette (No.17). So in a manner similar to last year\u2019s Vote which saw four Boston prospects suddenly shoved onto the ballot, Paez is the new arrival on the ballot this round.<\/p>\n South Side Sox Top-Voted White Sox<\/a> Prospects for 2026Braden Mongomery \u2014 59% (Smith 17%, Bonemer 9%, Schultz 7%, Antonacci 3%, Adams\/Carlson\/McDougal 2%, Fauske\/Oppor 0%)Hagen Smith \u2014 40% (Bonemer 28%, Schultz 18%, McDougal 5%, Antonacci 4%, Carlson 3%, Bergolla\/Oppor 1%, Adams\/Fauske 0%)Caleb Bonemer \u2014 47% (Schultz 34%, Antonacci 10%, Carlson\/McDougal 4%, Bergolla 2%, Adams\/Fauske\/Oppor\/Perez 0%)Noah Schultz \u2014 49% (Antonacci 25%, Carlson 11%, McDougal 7%, Adams\/Bergolla\/Oppor 2%, Perez 1%, Fauske\/Lodise 0%)Sam Antonacci \u2014 41% (Carlson 25%, McDougal 20%, Bergolla\/Perez 4%, Oppor 3%, Adams 2%, Fauske 1%, Diaz\/Lodise 0%)Tanner McDougal \u2014 39% (Carlson 36%, Bergolla 7%, Adams 6%, Pallette 5%, Fauske 3%, Oppor 2%, Lodise 1%, Diaz\/Perez 0%)Billy Carlson \u2014 52% (Adams 18%, Oppor 12%, Bergolla 9%, Fauske 5%, Lodise\/Pallette\/Wolkow 2%, Diaz\/Perez 0%)Christian Oppor \u2014 24% (Murphy 20%, Adams\/Fauske 16%, Wolkow 10%, Bergolla 9%, Lodise\/Pallette\/Perez 1%, Diaz 0%)Shane Murphy \u2014 34% (Adams 20%, Wolkow 13%, Fauske 16%, Bergolla 9%, Palisch 4%, Lodise\/Pallette\/Perez 1%, Diaz 0%)Mason Adams \u2014 43% (Wolkow 22%, Bergolla 11%, Fauske\/Pallette 10%, Lodise\/Palisch\/Perez 2%, Diaz\/Hodge 0%)Jaden Fauske \u2014 24.0% (Perez 23.5%, Hodge 13.4%, Bergolla 12.9%, Wolkow 8%, Pallette 5%, Diaz\/Gonzalez\/Lodise\/Palisch 3%)Jeral Perez \u2014 20% (Umberger 15%, Wolkow 13%, Hodge 12.3%, Palisch 11.9%, Bergolla 11.4%, Lodise 7.3%, Pallette 6.9%, Diaz 2%, Gonzalez 1%)Grant Umberger \u2014 28% (Palisch 19%, Wolkow 13%, Bergolla 12%, Hodge 11%, Lodise 10%, Pallette 4%, Diaz 3%, Gonzalez\/Larson 1%)Mathias LaCombe \u2014 41% (Bergolla 19%, Wolkow 17%, Pallette 7%, Palisch 6%, Gonzalez 4%, Hodge\/Lodise 2%, Diaz\/Larson 1%)William Bergolla \u2014 35% (Wolkow 20%, Pallette\/Palisch 13%, Larson 6%, Diaz\/Gordon\/Lodise 4%, Hodge 2%, Gonzalez 0%)George Wolkow \u2014 38% (Pallette 22%, Palisch 12%, Gordon 8%, Lodise 6%, Gonzalez 5%, Batista\/Diaz\/Larson 3%, Hodge 0%)Peyton Pallette \u2014 38% (Palisch 13%, Lodise 11%, Gordon\/Larson 10%, Gonzalez 8%, Batista 5%, Diaz 3%, Hodge\/Mogoll\u00f3n 2%)Blake Larson \u2014 21% (Lodise 18%, J. Gonzalez\/Palisch 15%, C. Gonzalez 11%, Gordon 10%, Batista 5%, Mogoll\u00f3n 3%, Hodge 2%, Diaz 0%)Ky Bush \u2014 24% (Palisch 19%, C. Gonzalez\/Lodise 16%, J. Gonzalez 8%, Gordon\/Batista 6%, Mogoll\u00f3n 3%, Diaz 2%, Hodge 0%)<\/p>\n Aldrin Batista Batista was our No. 6-voted player in last year\u2019s poll and top righthander \u2014 and then disaster struck, as he started the third Dash game of the season on April 6 and then was out more than four months with a stress fracture in his right (pitching) elbow. His return in late August was iffy, with three poor relief appearances of five. But he ended the season with a scoreless (two-inning) \u201copener\u201d start, which hopefully reverses the curse for 2026.<\/p>\n Reudis Diaz Who? You\u2019re forgiven for being unfamiliar with an extremely young arm who hasn\u2019t yet gotten out of rookie ball, but our No. 77 prospect a year ago (then a starter, repeating the DSL and killing it) made a successful adjustment Stateside. He\u2019ll return to starting in 2026, likely getting his feet wet in Arizona and getting a promotion to Low-A in the second half of the season.<\/p>\n Christian Gonzalez You cannot better epitomize and exciting \u2014 but unpolished \u2014 prospect than to stumble across one who hit better than .400, even in a month\u2019s worth of games. But in the process Gonzalez achieved what is thought to be an unprecedented in-season promotion in the White Sox system, from the DSL to ACL. That says a heckuva lot about what the White Sox think of his talent. The hit tool sure seems there, but a player having the speed to play all three outfield spots but succeeding on a comically-bad 33% of steal attempts is going to benefit a ton from Fall Instructional play and 2026 Spring Training work.<\/p>\n Jacob Gonzalez After the incredible first half\/awful second of 2024, Gonzalez rebounded for a solid campaign, the final third of which came in Charlotte. However, his time in Charlotte, a hitter\u2019s playground, was a significant step back on offense. He\u2019s on the cusp of the bigs but has created questions whether he\u2019ll produce at all with the stick on the South Side.<\/p>\n Lucas Gordon Somehow still, in completing his third season as a pro, Gordon is still vastly underrated. All he has done is put up a career 2.80 ERA while taking on a significant workload each season. Sure, there\u2019s no overpowering fastball there, but Gordon\u2019s cup of coffee at Double-A (where he vastly improved his ERA, 2.11 over four starts) indicates that he may evade the wall that softer tossers hit once they are in the upper minors.<\/p>\n Landon Hodge This teammate of White Sox first-rounder (and SSS Top Prospect Vote No. 7 player) Billy Carlson made history simply by being drafted<\/a> (fourth round, No. 107 overall). The very first pick of Day 2 of the draft was a somewhat curious one, given MLB\u2019s ranking as the 164th-best talent available in the draft and the presence of much more enticing talents (as high as MLB\u2019s No. 35 prospect) passed over on Day 1. Hodge has a killer arm (another characteristic he shares with Carlson) and has a solid hit tool that\u2019s more average than power.<\/p>\n Kyle Lodise Last summer\u2019s third-rounder got right to work after the draft, reporting to High-A and adding another third to what was already the longest (55 games) season of his career. While that slash is rough, at least nearly a fourth (four of 17) of the shortstop\u2019s hits left the yard. Perhaps against easier competition (or, maybe not), Lodise ran out a .329\/.429\/.667 slash in his last college season for Georgia Tech, with similar power, baserunning and bat discipline numbers.<\/p>\n Javier Mogoll\u00f3n An ascending star just one year ago, we have to tap the breaks a bit on Mogoll\u00f3n after a lackluster first full season of minors ball. While still young for his level and managing to keep his head above water in a new league every season of his career, Mogoll\u00f3n\u2019s undeniable hitting in Rookie ball fell off significantly with the Cannon Ballers. However, how much of that was due to battling injury is undetermined, as Mogoll\u00f3n was shelved for what turned out to be the season on July 2.<\/p>\n Jedixson Paez Paez is among the newest members of the White Sox, selected with the No. 2 pick in last week\u2019s Rule 5 draft. The Red Sox product has crushed opponents since his debut in the DSL in 2021. In fact, the only hitch in a series of relatively aggressive Boston promotions came last year, when a calf injury took Paez out of action from the end of April to mid-August and limited him to just seven starts.<\/p>\n Jake Palsich Palisch was a fluke call-up during Adrian Houser\u2019s paternity leave last summer, but his stellar Double-A season certainly merited consideration. While a pretty old player for his level and a guy bringing pedestrian peripherals, the bottom line is that an arm able to start or relieve and generate outs without overpowering stuff has a place in the White Sox system \u2014 and perhaps with the White Sox themselves.<\/p>\n Past South Side Sox Prospect votes<\/p>\n Here is how 2018 wrangled out<\/a> \u2014 all 42 picks. Also, here is an archive<\/a> of every article in the 2018 series.Here is how 2019 came together,<\/a> all 50 picks, and the archive<\/a> as well.Now 2020<\/a>, with the archive<\/a>.Here is the 2021 wrap-up of just 35 picks<\/a> due to flagging participation, along with the full archive<\/a>.Here is the 2022 link to the 27-pick wrap<\/a>, along with the full archive<\/a>.Round 24<\/a> of voting was the last of 2023 (we did not do an actual wrap for the voting, but Jordan Sprinkle ended up being our final pick), and the full archive<\/a>.In 2024 Abraham N\u00fa\u00f1ez was our 34th pick to end the series, and here is the wrap-up post<\/a> and full archive of each profile<\/a>.And last year, we did 31 picks, ending with Eric Adler. 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2025 Jairo Iriarte (20%)
2024 Ky Bush (18%)
2023 Jonathan Cannon (23%)
2022 Voting lasted through only 17 rounds
2021 Tyler Johnson (46%)
2020 Tyler Johnson (41%)
2019 Tyler Johnson (43%)
2018 Ryan Cordell (35%)<\/p>\n
Right-Handed Starting Pitcher
Age 22
2025 SSS Prospect Poll ranking 6
2025 high level Winston-Salem (High-A)
Age relative to high level -1.2 years
Overall 2025 stats 2-0 \u25aa\ufe0f 7 games (2 starts) \u25aa\ufe0f 14 IP \u25aa\ufe0f 5.79 ERA \u25aa\ufe0f 17 K \u25aa\ufe0f 7 BB \u25aa\ufe0f 1.429 WHIP \u25aa\ufe0f-1.2 WAR<\/p>\n
Right-handed relief pitcher
Age 20
2025 high level ACL (Rookie)
Age relative to high level -2.1 years
Overall 2025 stats 1-1 \u25aa\ufe0f 1 SV\u25aa\ufe0f 21 games (4 finishes) \u25aa\ufe0f 27 2\/3 IP \u25aa\ufe0f 2.28.ERA \u25aa\ufe0f 18 K \u25aa\ufe0f 8 BB \u25aa\ufe0f 1.084 WHIP \u25aa\ufe0f1.2 WAR<\/p>\n
Right Fielder
Age 19
2025 high level ACL (Rookie)
Age relative to high level -1.6 years
Overall 2025 stats (DSL\/ACL) 34 games \u25aa\ufe0f 1 HR \u25aa\ufe0f 14 RBI \u25aa\ufe0f .407\/.511\/.565 \u25aa\ufe0f 4-of-12 (33.3%) SB \u25aa\ufe0f 19 BB \u25aa\ufe0f 19 K \u25aa\ufe0f .950 FLD%\u25aa\ufe0f 1.4 WAR<\/p>\n
Second Baseman
Age 23
2024 SSS Prospect Poll ranking 9
2025 SSS Prospect Poll ranking 24
2025 high level Charlotte (AAA)
Age relative to high level -3.3 years
Overall 2025 stats (AA\/AAA) 134 games \u25aa\ufe0f 8 HR \u25aa\ufe0f 61 RBI \u25aa\ufe0f .232\/.307\/.345 \u25aa\ufe0f 17-of-20 (85.0%) SB \u25aa\ufe0f 48 BB \u25aa\ufe0f 86 K \u25aa\ufe0f .990 FLD%\u25aa\ufe0f 3.1 WAR<\/p>\n
Left-Handed Starting Pitcher
Age 24
2025 high level Birmingham (AA)
Age relative to high level -1.7 years
Overall 2025 stats (High-A\/AA) 3-11\u25aa\ufe0f 24 starts \u25aa\ufe0f 107 2\/3 IP \u25aa\ufe0f 3.59 ERA \u25aa\ufe0f 116 K \u25aa\ufe0f 42 BB \u25aa\ufe0f 1.161 WHIP \u25aa\ufe0f 1.5 WAR<\/p>\n
Catcher
Age 19
2025 high level Crespi Carmelite H.S. (Encino, Calif.)
Scouting grades (40-80 scale) Hit 45 \u25aa\ufe0f Power 40 \u25aa\ufe0f Run 50 \u25aa\ufe0f Arm 55 \u25aa\ufe0f Field 50 \u25aa\ufe0f Overall 40<\/p>\n
Shortstop
Age 22
2025 high level Winston-Salem (High-A)
Age relative to high level -1.0 years
Overall 2025 stats 28 games \u25aa\ufe0f 4 HR \u25aa\ufe0f 10 RBI \u25aa\ufe0f .185\/.319\/.370 \u25aa\ufe0f 7-of-8 (87.5%) SB \u25aa\ufe0f 15 BB \u25aa\ufe0f 21 K \u25aa\ufe0f .954 FLD%\u25aa\ufe0f 0.4 WAR<\/p>\n
Shortstop
Age 20
2025 high level Kannapolis (Low-A)
Age relative to high level -1.4 years
Overall 2025 stats 51 games \u25aa\ufe0f 5 HR \u25aa\ufe0f 19 RBI \u25aa\ufe0f .220\/.347\/.387 \u25aa\ufe0f 15-of-21 (71.4%) SB \u25aa\ufe0f 30 BB \u25aa\ufe0f 56 K \u25aa\ufe0f .971 FLD%\u25aa\ufe0f 1.0 WAR<\/p>\n
Right-Handed Starting Pitcher
Age 22
2025 high level Greenville (Red Sox High-A)
Age relative to high level -2.2 years
Overall 2025 stats o-3 \u25aa\ufe0f 7 starts \u25aa\ufe0f 19 1\/3 IP \u25aa\ufe0f 2.79.ERA \u25aa\ufe0f 23 K \u25aa\ufe0f 3 BB \u25aa\ufe0f 1.086 WHIP \u25aa\ufe0f 0.4 WAR<\/p>\n
Left-Handed Relief Pitcher
Age 27
2025 high level Chicago (MLB)
Age relative to high level -3.2 years
Overall 2025 stats (AA only) 8-3 \u25aa\ufe0f 11 SV \u25aa\ufe0f 29 games (13 starts, 1 finish) \u25aa\ufe0f 105 IP \u25aa\ufe0f 2.14.ERA \u25aa\ufe0f 67 K \u25aa\ufe0f 26 BB \u25aa\ufe0f 1.067 WHIP \u25aa\ufe0f 3.0 WAR<\/p>\n