The White Sox Must Take A Flier On This Former Top Prospect

The White Sox had a significant improvement from 2024-2025, as they won 19 more games this past season. This was solid progress, as they looked like a much more competent baseball team. This improvement was due to a lot of factors, but most importantly, contributions from their top prospects.

This sets the White Sox up for continued improvement throughout the organization in 2026, as they will have another top draft pick and room to add players from outside the organization. Despite the White Sox being one step closer to contention, they should not stop adding low-risk, high-reward players, as it is likely they won’t be in the hunt for the playoffs this season. These acquisitions could come in the form of former top-100 prospects who haven’t gotten much playing time with their current organization or have bounced around a few teams.

There has already been one move like that this offseason, as the White Sox acquired former top-100 prospect Everson Pereira from the Tampa Bay Rays. This is a high-upside move, as the White Sox could tap into the talent that made Pereira a top-100 prospect and into a valuable middle of the order bat.

The White Sox could add another player like this in the free agent market, as Nick Frasso was non-tendered by the Los Angeles Dodgers. This is a very interesting move, as Frasso was a consensus top-100 prospect for the last few seasons, yet injuries have derailed his career to this point.

The White Sox should definitely try and sign Frasso, as he has the potential to be a very valuable addition to the bullpen or the rotation, since he has top-prospect pedigree. With Brian Bannister and a recently overhauled major league pitching staff, the White Sox could tap into what once made Frasso a top prospect.

Frasso is 27 and hasn’t made his major league debut, but he has struggled with injuries and is in a stacked Dodgers organization. In 2025 after missing the entire 2024 season, Frasso threw 77 innings of 5.49 ERA baseball for the Dodgers AAA affiliate. He struck out 68 while walking 42. While these aren’t ideal stats, it is to be expected after suffering missing an entire season due to injury.

Nick Frasso was good for OKC last night ⬇️
1.1IP | 1H | 0R | 1K | 0BB

Frasso has spent this entire year trying to find consistency after coming off his shoulder surgery last year. It's been a grind, and it was a fairly slow ramp-up to start the year, but he has found his stride… pic.twitter.com/HsJmaIw4P0

— Dodgers Daily (@dodger_daily) September 18, 2025

Overall in his minor league career, Frasso has a 3.81 ERA over 229 innings, with a very good 10.2 K/9 ratio. This is something the White Sox could potentially tap into, as he has very good swing and miss stuff.

At this point, Frasso is your prototypical low-risk, high-reward free agent, as he would likely sign a minor league contract with an invite to Spring Training. It is certainly within the realm of possibilities that he would make the team and be a contributor for the pitching staff for 2026 and the future. The White Sox should definitely look into signing Frasso, as they should be acquiring and shuffling through as much high end talent as they can.