Jordan Sprinkle
Left Fielder
5´11´´
180 pounds
Age: 25
2023 SSS Top Prospect Rank 23
2024 SSS Top Prospect Rank 68
2025 SSS Top Prospect Rank N/R
2025 High Level Birmingham (AA)
Age relative to high level +0.3 years
SSS rank among all left fielders in the system 2
Overall 2025 stats (Low-A/High-A/AA) 100 games ⚾️ 1 HR ⚾️ 26 RBI ⚾️ .245/.375/.287 ⚾️ 60 BB ⚾️ 69 K ⚾️ 80-of-89 (89.9%) SB ⚾️ .986 FLD ⚾️ 3.5 WAR

With the No. 131 pick, the White Sox grabbed Jordan Sprinkle in the 2022 MLB draft, out of UC-Santa Barbara.

In college, Sprinkle had a reputation as a defensive wizard who struggles with the bat, and his professional career has borne that out. But regardless of whether his bat ever comes around to what he showed in 2021 (co-Big West Freshman of the Year and a third-team All-American), Sprinkle’s defense, speed, and base stealing ability are all major pluses in uphill climb toward the big league roster.

Sprinkle got a solid month of pro play after the draft, moving from the ACL (22 games) to a short cup of coffee with Kannapolis (five). There was no power whatsoever in his game, and the OBP lagged a bit given his wheels (.331), but 2022 was also the longest season of Sprinkle’s career.

It has been a rough go for Sprinkle as a pro. His first full year could have been spent primarily at High-A Winston-Salem, given his age. But a combination of uninspiring performance and injury saw the shortstop essentially duplicate his 2022 pro debut, never advancing past Low-A Kannapolis.

And it got worse, as in 2024 Sprinkle was advanced due to age to Winston-Salem, but that meritless promotion proved dire, as the speedster slashed .207/.297/.279 in a full Dash season. The aftermath of that mess, at least in the South Side Sox world, saw Sprinkle dropping out of our Top 100 Prospects entirely.

The White Sox made a desperation demotion of Sprinkle in 2025, starting him back at Kanny (where he was a graybeard 3.6 years senior for the level) — to avail. Yes, Sprinkle revisited Winston-Salem and even got to be part of the Southern League dominance of the Barons for four games, but overall this was a summer that would merit a cut from the system.

For the highest-drafted position player in the 2022 White Sox draft and a fourth-rounder, Sprinkle’s career so far has been sorely lacking.

So why is Sprinkle in our Top 100? Beyond the weak level of competition in the system, the tools the mini-mite has are prodigious: speed to burn, with not just a system-topping 80 steals but an efficiency nearly at 90%. Sprinkle also widened his defensive ability, seeing so much time in left field he now qualifies there for this listing (he lined up for 37 in left, 36 at second base, and 22 at the hot corner).

It’s a huge stretch to regard Sprinkle as a true prospect at this point, but strong gains in his on-base percentage combined with his speed could catapult him into, say, a Duke Ellis-type candidate for the majors.

Sprinkle likely returns to Winston-Salem for 2026, in what undoubtedly will be his last shot to make a mark with the White Sox.