Oscar Colas #76

Signed with the Chicago White Sox on Jan. 25, 2022... played parts of three seasons in Cuba's Serie Nacional as well as three years in Japan's minor Western League and seven games with that nation's big league Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks... a dispute with the Hawks led to him being declared a free agent in December 2020, but he elected to wait until January 2022 to sign with the White Sox for $2.7 million... Chicago didn't have enough money left in its 2021 international bonus pool for him, but he was willing to wait to sign... made his Minor League debut on April 8, 2022 with High-A Winston-Salem... was selected by MiLB.com as a White Sox Organization All-Star in 2022... selected to the All-Star Futures Game in 2022.. finished the 2022 season ranked as Chicago's No. 2 prospect by MLB.com

2022

MLB Pipeline’s No. 95 overall prospect batted .314 with an .895 OPS between High-A Winston-Salem, Double-A Birmingham and Triple-A Charlotte in 2022, collecting 23 homers, 24 doubles, four triples, 79 RBIs and 81 runs scored in his first Minor League season since coming over from Japan... batted .311 with an .844 OPS and 23 extra-base hits, including seven homers, and 42 RBIs over 59 games with Winston-Salem... earned a promotion to Birmingham, and the club made the move after his Futures Game appearance in July... during the prospect showcase at Dodger Stadium, Colas went 1-for-2 and made a diving catch in center field to take a hit away from Nationals prospect Darren Baker... was part of a contingent of top White Sox prospects at Double-A in what the club was calling “Project Birmingham.”... hit 14 homers and maintained a .563 slugging percentage over 51 games with the Barons... promoted to Triple-A Charlotte to finish the year -- he went 12-for-31 with a pair of homers -- which came in the same game -- and five runs scored in seven contests.