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Minor League Baseball is coming back to America's oldest professional ballpark in 2025. The Birmingham Barons, Double-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox, will host the Rocket City Trash Pandas (Angels) at Rickwood Field in a tribute to the Negro Leagues on June 4, 2025, the team announced on Thursday.

CHICAGO -- Colson Montgomery currently is working out in Tennessee at the Bledsoe Agency, coming off strong showings in the Arizona Fall League and from the end of the 2024 season with Triple-A Charlotte. But Montgomery, whom MLB Pipeline ranks as the No. 3 White Sox prospect and No. 37

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Call it a last-chance saloon in the middle of the desert. The Arizona Fall League provides more than just an opportunity to see some of the game’s top prospects in one spot. It’s also the final place certain Minor Leaguers can prove they are deserving of a 40-man roster spot

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This fall, for the first time, the majority of Arizona Fall League stadiums are outfitted with Statcast technology. That enables us to peek under the hood and get a better sense of how some of the game’s best prospects are performing on the annual elite prospect circuit. With that in

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- While the Yankees and Dodgers were busy tagging home runs that carried significant weight during Game 2 of the World Series on Saturday night, Brooks Brannon and DJ Gladney were sending their own prodigious wallops toward the Dodgers complex located just beyond the left-field wall at Camelback

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Colson Montgomery put the final word on his second turn in the Arizona Fall League, and that word was boom. The White Sox No. 3 prospect homered on Friday in Glendale’s 7-6 loss to Salt River at Camelback Ranch in what he confirmed would be his final

There was a period last summer when some evaluators thought: Colson Montgomery, No. 1 prospect in baseball. After all, 6-foot-3 shortstops with 25+ home run potential don’t come around often. The Corey Seager comps were obvious, even something Montgomery embraced.

MESA, Ariz. – When LSU spilled out onto Omaha’s Charles Schwab Field to celebrate the 2023 national championship, Grant Taylor and Tre' Morgan were part of the dog pile, teammates jubilant about their club’s success. Fast forward to Wednesday afternoon at Sloan Park during Arizona Fall League action and the

CHICAGO -- The future might not exactly be now for the White Sox. But as their rebuild progresses, it certainly will come much sooner than later. This team could have a decidedly younger makeup in 2025, following a ’24 campaign in which it set a single-season Modern Era record (since

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This story was excerpted from Scott Merkin’s White Sox Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Jim Thome has high regard for George Wolkow. Having a Hall of Famer who is considered one of the classiest

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There was nothing supernatural about it, but the metropolis known as Magic City lived up to its billing on Tuesday night. DJ Gladney ripped a liner into center field in the bottom of the 10th inning to lift Double-A Birmingham to its first Southern League championship since 2013 with a

CHICAGO – A young fan approached near the White Sox dugout 30 minutes prior to Sunday’s series finale against the A’s at Guaranteed Rate Field with the following sign in tow: “I'm 11 today. My wish is a White Sox win." Those wishes have been rarely granted this season. But

CHICAGO – It didn’t take long for White Sox right-hander Sean Burke to be introduced to Major League pressure during his debut on the mound as part of Chicago’s 5-0 loss Tuesday night at Guaranteed Rate Field. After striking out Bo Naylor and inducing a Brayan Rocchio flyout to open

Good pitching can be hard to find -- look at the flurry of activity at the Trade Deadline for evidence -- so clubs that can develop talents on the mound themselves can get a considerable leg up on the competition. Think of where the Phillies would be without homegrown talents

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CHICAGO -- Hagen Smith threw out one of the ceremonial first pitches prior to Cleveland’s 5-3 victory over the White Sox Monday night at Guaranteed Rate Field. Guardians rookie Joey Cantillo carried a perfect game into the seventh during the series opener, until Andrew Benintendi’s two-out single to right broke

BALTIMORE -- On a night when two of the higher-ranked right-handed pitching prospects in the White Sox farm system faced one of baseball’s best lineups, the feedback was clear, if not particularly profound. To turn stuff with potential into Major League success, Jairo Iriarte and Nick Nastrini need to command

CHICAGO -- Noah Schultz took the mound for Double-A Birmingham Saturday night, with the No. 1 White Sox prospect and No. 14 overall, per MLB Pipeline, striking out seven over four scoreless innings in his 21st start of the season and 14th for the Barons. Somewhere around 370 miles away,