{"id":519952,"date":"2026-01-14T14:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/519952\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T14:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:30:17","slug":"2026-south-side-sox-top-prospect-no-65-bryce-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/519952\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 65: Bryce Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bryce Collins
Right-Handed Relief Pitcher
6\u00b41\u00b4\u00b4
200 pounds
Age: 25
2025 South Side Sox Top 100 Ranking<\/a> 62
2024 High Level Winston-Salem (A+)
Age relative to high level +1.0 years
SSS rank among all right-handed relief pitchers in the system 11
Overall 2024 stats (Low-A\/High-A) 1-0 \u26be\ufe0f 34 games (12 finishes) \u26be\ufe0f 5 SV \u26be\ufe0f 45 innings \u26be\ufe0f 2.40 ERA \u26be\ufe0f 1.267 WHIP \u26be\ufe0f 65 K \u26be\ufe0f 22 BB \u26be\ufe0f 1.2 WAR<\/p>\n

Bryce Collins was originally drafted by the Minnesota Twins<\/a> right out of high school, in the 39th round of the 2018 MLB Draft<\/a>. Collins ultimately decided to attend college instead, and continued his baseball career at the University of Arizona. He spent one season there prior to transferring to the SEC at Louisiana State University, playing alongside several MLB draftees (including the 2024 NL Rookie of the Year, Paul Skenes).<\/p>\n

Collins appeared in seven games for Arizona in the 2018 season, starting four and relieving for three. In 22 1\u20443 innings, he posted a 5.24 ERA with three homers, 23 hits, and 16 strikeouts. He struggled with walks with the Wildcats, walking nearly the same amount of batters as he struck out (15), bringing him to a 1.701 WHIP. Collins ended up with an arm injury that kept him out for the next two seasons, which could very well have contributed to the weaker performance as a freshman.<\/p>\n

Collins joined the LSU Tigers<\/a> for the 2022 and 2023 seasons as a redshirt sophomore and junior, respectively, and in 2022 he showed a lot of improvement. In 20 games (32 1\u20443 innings), he completed the season with a 3.62 ERA and greatly improved his strikeout rate from 2018, up to 25.2% compared to 14.8% at Arizona. Walks were unfortunately still a bit of a problem \u2014 Collins improved his walk rate by just 0.3%, from 2018 (13.61%) to 2022 (13.9%), leaving plenty of room for improvement in this area.<\/p>\n

In his final season at LSU, Collins seemingly regressed a bit, and posted a really rough 9.18 ERA across 16 2\u20443 innings in 16 appearances. He was still striking out batters pretty efficiently (21.6 K%), but his walk rate ballooned all the way up to 18.2% alongside a brutal 1.920 WHIP \u2014 not great, fam. On the bright side, LSU won the National Championship in 2023, so there are certainly worse consolation prizes.<\/p>\n

The good news for Collins is that the Chicago White Sox<\/a> realized that Collins had something more than could be seen in the stats, and they signed him to a minor league deal prior to the 2024 season.<\/p>\n

And the Sox have been proven right. Bryce joined the Kannapolis Cannon Ballers in Low-A and completely bounced back from where he ended his collegiate career. He appeared in 11 games and 14 innings with a 3.21 ERA and struck out 24 of 61 batters at a 39% clip. Moreover, Collins walked just six batters, which was certainly an improvement in comparison to previous years. This performance earned Collins a promotion up to the High-A Winston-Salem Dash, where he finished out the season.<\/p>\n

In terms of keeping runs from crossing the plate, Collins was even better at this at the next level, working a 2.03 ERA across 23 High-A games and 31 innings. He melded more into a closer role, as he finished 10 games and earned five saves. Collins\u2019 WHIP was the lowest it\u2019s ever been, at 1.194, and he still maintained a strikeout rate over 30%. Once again, however, the dreaded walk rate pushed back up to 12.4%, though he continuously avoided chaos and left runners on base 82% of the time.<\/p>\n

Collins\u2019 fastball tops out at around 96 mph, and he also has a slider and curveball in his arsenal \u2014 and his curveball looks like it could be one hell of a pitch given its movement \u2014 typically averaging in the upper 70s to low 80s; his curve shows<\/a> an 18-inch vertical drop at a projected 86% efficiency, with 2500 rpms. If I was a batter, I would want nothing to do with that.<\/p>\n

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Tread Athletics<\/p>\n

Collins was not able to keep his momentum going for 2025, however, as he missed all season with injury. He broke camp with a return to Winston-Salem, with promise of a quick promotion to Birmingham if all went to plan. But Collins\u2019 injury sidelined him breaking camp, and while there was hope of him getting healthy his rehab assignment in the ACL was quickly cut short. Collins ended up on the 60-day IL.<\/p>\n

If healthy, there is no reason to believe Collins can\u2019t make up for a lost 2025 by seeing Birmingham in 2026. But we have to put a pause in his ascendance for now.<\/p>\n

Full 2026 South Side Sox Top 100 White Sox Prospects Storystream<\/a><\/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 for 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":"Bryce CollinsRight-Handed Relief Pitcher6\u00b41\u00b4\u00b4200 poundsAge: 252025 South Side Sox Top 100 Ranking 622024 High Level Winston-Salem (A+)Age relative…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[59257,5,68832,138,49,38554,59258,2561,4,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-519952","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-baseball","10":"tag-bryce-collins","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-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115893936761179708","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519952","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=519952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}