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When you think of the Chicago White Sox farm system, top prospects, and future of the organization, there are always a few common names that come to mind.
There has been plenty of coverage during the 2026 season about Braden Montgomery, Caleb Bonemer, and even someone like Hagen Smith. These are all top draft choices by the White Sox and some of the highest-ranked prospects in the farm system. But as we see so often, part of being an organization that can develop talent is what you do with some of the more unheralded prospects in your system.
And for the White Sox, there has been plenty to be encouraged by where that is concerned throughout 2026. In recent weeks, two White Sox prospects ranked in the organization’s top 30 have been on dominant stretches in the minor leagues.
Should it continue, they will fly up the rankings in the next update and should be due for promotions at some point this season.
Infielder Javier Mogollon and outfielder George Wolkow have been making minor league baseball look easy recently.
Mogollon is a 20-year-old infielder who is currently the No. 13 ranked prospect in the White Sox organization, according to MLB Pipeline. He was part of the 2023 international class and posted a .967 OPS through his first two seasons in rookie ball.
In 2025, the White Sox finally sent Mogollon to an affiliate, assigning him to Low-A Kannapolis, where he played in 51 games and had a .734 OPS on the season. That cooled some of the hype around his future, despite his impressive raw power and speed that could make him an impact player in every facet of the game.
Over the last few weeks, though, we have seen a version of Mogollon emerge that the White Sox have been waiting for.
In his last 20 games for the Kannapolis Cannon Ballers, Mogollon is batting .387 with eight doubles, one triple, four home runs, 17 RBIs, 13 stolen bases, and an OPS of 1.107.
He now has a .308 batting average and .955 OPS for the season, and we could see Mogollon get promoted to High-A Winston-Salem before much longer.
Another prospect riding a hot streak is outfielder George Wolkow, which has been par for the course throughout his professional career. With Wolkow, it always seems to come in waves.
He was a seventh-round pick by the White Sox in the 2023 MLB Draft out of Downers Grove North High School in Illinois. He signed for third-round money with a bonus of $1 million. By 2024, he was the youngest everyday player in the Single-A Carolina League, as the White Sox made an overall bet on a 6-foot-7 left-handed hitting outfielder with loud tools.
Wolkow opened the 2026 season assigned to High-A Winston-Salem, making his first appearances with the Dash. As usual, he has struggled with swing and miss at times and has a high strikeout rate, but when he is dialed in, you see all of the upside that makes the White Sox bullish on his future and has him ranked as the No. 14 prospect in the organization.
Wolkow is currently having an unbelievable week in Greensboro. He is 7-for-10 at the plate with 10 RBIs in two games. But even going back to last week’s numbers, he has been red hot. In his last eight games, Wolkow has a .469 batting average and an OPS of 1.392. He has four doubles, two triples, two home runs, and 15 RBIs in eight games.
At his best, this is a player who can carry an entire offense. And over his last eight games, Wolkow has been doing it for the Dash.
He now has a .771 OPS in Winston-Salem with 33 RBIs in 38 games played on the year.
Wolkow was one of the youngest players in his draft class when the White Sox took him, and he will be 20 years old until January of next year. There is still a lot of time for him to develop, and plenty of reason to be optimistic that he could be a future core piece for the White Sox.
These are the players who can take a farm system to the next level.
Just look at someone like Sam Antonacci, who was never a highly ranked prospect but always had plus tools. And as he continued to produce in the minor leagues and make a bigger name for himself, he got promoted and is now a key contributor and the leadoff hitter for the White Sox in Chicago.
He was not a highly ranked prospect. He was not somebody you looked at and thought, “This is why the White Sox farm system is great.” But he was developed enough to provide value for the big league club.
Right now, it looks like both Mogollon and Wolkow have the potential to do that someday as well.
Continue reading...
There has been plenty of coverage during the 2026 season about Braden Montgomery, Caleb Bonemer, and even someone like Hagen Smith. These are all top draft choices by the White Sox and some of the highest-ranked prospects in the farm system. But as we see so often, part of being an organization that can develop talent is what you do with some of the more unheralded prospects in your system.
And for the White Sox, there has been plenty to be encouraged by where that is concerned throughout 2026. In recent weeks, two White Sox prospects ranked in the organization’s top 30 have been on dominant stretches in the minor leagues.
Should it continue, they will fly up the rankings in the next update and should be due for promotions at some point this season.
Infielder Javier Mogollon and outfielder George Wolkow have been making minor league baseball look easy recently.
INF Javier Mogollon
Mogollon is a 20-year-old infielder who is currently the No. 13 ranked prospect in the White Sox organization, according to MLB Pipeline. He was part of the 2023 international class and posted a .967 OPS through his first two seasons in rookie ball.
In 2025, the White Sox finally sent Mogollon to an affiliate, assigning him to Low-A Kannapolis, where he played in 51 games and had a .734 OPS on the season. That cooled some of the hype around his future, despite his impressive raw power and speed that could make him an impact player in every facet of the game.
Over the last few weeks, though, we have seen a version of Mogollon emerge that the White Sox have been waiting for.
In his last 20 games for the Kannapolis Cannon Ballers, Mogollon is batting .387 with eight doubles, one triple, four home runs, 17 RBIs, 13 stolen bases, and an OPS of 1.107.
He now has a .308 batting average and .955 OPS for the season, and we could see Mogollon get promoted to High-A Winston-Salem before much longer.
OF George Wolkow
Another prospect riding a hot streak is outfielder George Wolkow, which has been par for the course throughout his professional career. With Wolkow, it always seems to come in waves.
He was a seventh-round pick by the White Sox in the 2023 MLB Draft out of Downers Grove North High School in Illinois. He signed for third-round money with a bonus of $1 million. By 2024, he was the youngest everyday player in the Single-A Carolina League, as the White Sox made an overall bet on a 6-foot-7 left-handed hitting outfielder with loud tools.
Wolkow opened the 2026 season assigned to High-A Winston-Salem, making his first appearances with the Dash. As usual, he has struggled with swing and miss at times and has a high strikeout rate, but when he is dialed in, you see all of the upside that makes the White Sox bullish on his future and has him ranked as the No. 14 prospect in the organization.
Wolkow is currently having an unbelievable week in Greensboro. He is 7-for-10 at the plate with 10 RBIs in two games. But even going back to last week’s numbers, he has been red hot. In his last eight games, Wolkow has a .469 batting average and an OPS of 1.392. He has four doubles, two triples, two home runs, and 15 RBIs in eight games.
At his best, this is a player who can carry an entire offense. And over his last eight games, Wolkow has been doing it for the Dash.
He now has a .771 OPS in Winston-Salem with 33 RBIs in 38 games played on the year.
Wolkow was one of the youngest players in his draft class when the White Sox took him, and he will be 20 years old until January of next year. There is still a lot of time for him to develop, and plenty of reason to be optimistic that he could be a future core piece for the White Sox.
These are the players who can take a farm system to the next level.
Just look at someone like Sam Antonacci, who was never a highly ranked prospect but always had plus tools. And as he continued to produce in the minor leagues and make a bigger name for himself, he got promoted and is now a key contributor and the leadoff hitter for the White Sox in Chicago.
He was not a highly ranked prospect. He was not somebody you looked at and thought, “This is why the White Sox farm system is great.” But he was developed enough to provide value for the big league club.
Right now, it looks like both Mogollon and Wolkow have the potential to do that someday as well.
Continue reading...
