{"id":642217,"date":"2026-03-25T07:06:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/642217\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T07:06:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:06:33","slug":"2026-south-side-sox-top-prospect-no-2-caleb-bonemer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/642217\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 2: Caleb Bonemer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caleb Bonemer
6\u00b41\u00b4\u00b4
195 pounds
Age: 20
2025 South Side Sox Top 100 Prospect ranking<\/a> 17
2025 High Level Winston-Salem (High-A)
Age relative to high level -3.1
SSS rank among all shortstops in the system 1
Overall 2025 stats (Low-A\/High-A) 107 G \u26be\ufe0f 12 HR \u26be\ufe0f 64 RBI \u26be\ufe0f .281\/.401\/.473 \u26be\ufe0f 29-of-37 (78.4%) SB \u26be\ufe0f 75 BB \u26be\ufe0f 101 K \u26be\ufe0f .938 FLD% \u26be\ufe0f 4.3 WAR<\/p>\n

The White Sox<\/a> drafted Caleb Bonemer in the second round in 2024. Drafted out of high school in Okemos, Mich., his selection might have been predestined: Not only was Bonemer an Area Code affiliate of the White Sox, but on the day Bonemer was born fellow infielder Tadahito Iguchi launched a three-run homer to help defeat Boston<\/a>, 5-4, in Game 2 of the 2005 ALDS.<\/p>\n

In both his junior and senior seasons, Bonemer earned the Gatorade Michigan Player of the Year award. Bonemer signed with the White Sox for $2,997,500 rather than attending the University of Virginia.<\/p>\n

Bonemer made his pro debut in 2025, with a somewhat surprising\/aggressive assignment to Kannapolis. The shortstop immediately laid to rest any concerns about rushing him, as he utterly destroyed Low-A pitching. After untold highlights and numerous citations from South Side Sox as minors Player of the Week, Bonemer packed his bags and headed up to Winston-Salem, where he would play more than three years young for the level. All Bonemer did then was up his slugging to an outrageous (.611) degree, mashing seven extra-base hits in 11 games.<\/p>\n

Heading into 2026, Bonemer is a consensus No. 1 overall prospect in the eyes of most prognosticators, and reaching as high as No. 26 among MLB prospects according to Baseball Prospectus, No. 27 at Baseball America.<\/p>\n

Expect Bonemer to start in Double-A Birmingham this season, and if you doubt his ability to club his way to Charlotte before season\u2019s end, you just weren\u2019t paying attention in 2025.<\/p>\n

2026 Top 100 Prospects no longer in the system
15. Peyton Pallette, RHRP (lost to Cleveland in the Rule 5 draft)
31. Gage Ziehl, RHSP (traded to Boston on Feb. 1, 2026)
43. Ronny Hernandez, C (traded to Boston on Nov. 18, 2025)
51. Drew Dalquist, RHRP (declared free agency, signed Triple-A deal with San Diego Padres)
66. Andre Lipcius, 1B (declared free agency)
84. Caleb Freeman, RHRP (declared free agency, signed Triple-A deal with Toronto Blue Jays)
90. DJ Gladney, RF (declared free agency, signed Double-A deal with New York Yankees)
98. Luis Pineda, C (declared free agency)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caleb Bonemer6\u00b41\u00b4\u00b4195 poundsAge: 202025 South Side Sox Top 100 Prospect ranking 172025 High Level Winston-Salem (High-A)Age relative to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[59257,5,138,49,38554,59258,2561,4,396,38555,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-642217","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-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-white-sox","12":"tag-chicago-white-sox-prospects-minor-leagues","13":"tag-chicago-white-sox-top-100-prospects","14":"tag-chicagowhitesox","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-white-sox","17":"tag-white-sox-minors","18":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116288552264764200","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642217","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=642217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}