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Chicago White Sox Top Prospect Earns Spotlight After Big 2024 Season

Noah Schultz, the second highest-rated pitching prospect in baseball, drew big-time praise from MLB.com for his fantastic 2024 season.
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A detailed view of a Chicago White Sox hat and glove in the dugout against the Atlanta Braves in the fourth inning at Truist Park in 2023.
A detailed view of a Chicago White Sox hat and glove in the dugout against the Atlanta Braves in the fourth inning at Truist Park in 2023. | Brett Davis-Imagn Images

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As we get ready to close the book on 2024, it's time to reflect a little bit. MLB.com and MLB Pipeline did that on Thursday, highlighting the accomplishments of some of the best minor league prospects in baseball.

For the Chicago White Sox, the spotlight was on left-hander Noah Schultz. The pitcher is ranked as the No. 16 prospect in baseball by MLB.com and is the second highest-rated pitcher in the prospect ranks.

He posted a fantastic 2.24 ERA for the year.

Schultz allowed four earned runs in four innings in his second start of '24, on April 13. He didn’t surrender more than two earned runs in a single outing for the remainder of the regular season, a stretch of 21 starts (five with High-A Winston-Salem, 16 with Double-A Birmingham). Mind you, the White Sox capped Schultz at four innings per start to get him through the whole season healthy, but he was still mighty effective with those guardrails in place, leading to the low ERA.

Schultz is predicted to make his major league debut this season by the outlet. If that's going to happen, there's no better place to be than in Chicago, where the White Sox are coming off the worst record in Modern-Era history at 41-121. After trading Garrett Crochet to the Boston Red Sox two weeks ago, they have ample openings in their rotation for guys like Schultz to get in early and make an impact.

Chicago has six Top 100 prospects in baseball now per the latest rankings from MLB.com as well.

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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