Alan Escobar
Left Fielder
6\u00b40\u00b4\u00b4
185 pounds
Age: 17
First ranking in the South Side Sox Top 100
2025 High Level DSL (Rookie)
Age relative to high level -1.7 years
SSS rank among all left fielders in the system 1
Overall 2025 season stats 38 games \u26be\ufe0f 0 HR \u26be\ufe0f 15 RBI \u26be\ufe0f .306\/.409\/.343 \u26be\ufe0f 17 BB \u26be\ufe0f 20 K \u26be\ufe0f 5-of-6 (83.3%) SB \u26be\ufe0f 1.000 FLD% \u26be\ufe0f 0.8 WAR<\/p>\n
Alan Escobar played almost his entire season at just 16 years old, so while his numbers demand the small sample size and strange-league provisos that are always attached to DSL play, they show enormous promise.<\/p>\n
Adding to Escobar\u2019s grativas is the fact that the White Sox signed him out of Venezuela for $350,000, no small feat for such a young player. He was six feet tall at signing, so his singles-hitter frame has lots of room still to grow; don\u2019t expect Escobar to slug in the .300s again.<\/p>\n
Otherwise, he has a nice bag of tools for such a young player, with speed, some bat discipline, and a solid hit tool. We don\u2019t usually have a lot to say about DSL prospects due to the difficulty of getting any eyes at all on them, much less detailed skills reporting. But these players move all the way up the system with regularity, so let\u2019s get them on the radar when appropriate.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not quite a coin flip whether Escobar plays Stateside in the ACL in 2026, but given the aggressive in-season move to Arizona by Christian Gonzalez in 2025, chances are that the left fielder has seen his last of the DSL.<\/p>\n
2026 Top 100 Prospects no longer in the system
15. Peyton Pallette, RHRP (lost to Cleveland in the Rule 5 draft)
43. Ronny Hernandez, C (traded to Boston on Nov. 18, 2025)
51. Drew Dalquist, RHRP (declared free agency)
66. Andre Lipcius, 1B (declared free agency)
84. Caleb Freeman, RHRP (declared free agency)
90. DJ Gladney, RF (declared free agency)
98. Luis Pineda, C (declared free agency)<\/p>\n
Estimated prospect ratings for players added this offseason but too late to fit in our Top 100
23. Alexander Alberto, RHRP (Rule 5 pick from Tampa Bay)
40. Tristan Peters, OF (trade from Tampa Bay)
44. Tim Elko, 1B (re-signed as MiLB free agent)
45. Jackson Kelley, RHRP (MiLB Rule 5 pick from Texas)
87. Tanner Murray, INF (trade from Tampa Bay)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alan EscobarLeft Fielder6\u00b40\u00b4\u00b4185 poundsAge: 17First ranking in the South Side Sox Top 1002025 High Level DSL (Rookie)Age relative…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[59257,66923,5,138,49,38554,59258,2561,4,396,38555,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-504591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-2026-white-sox-top-100-prospects","9":"tag-alan-escobar","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-white-sox","13":"tag-chicago-white-sox-prospects-minor-leagues","14":"tag-chicago-white-sox-top-100-prospects","15":"tag-chicagowhitesox","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-white-sox","18":"tag-white-sox-minors","19":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115833573676432456","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}