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2021 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 56: Alec Hansen

Right-Handed Relief Pitcher
6´7´´
235 pounds
Age: 26
SSS rank among all right-handed relief pitchers in the system: 7
2020 SSHP Top Prospect Rank: 37
2019 SSS Top Prospect Rank: 17
2028 SSS Top Prospect Rank: 4

As a member of an Oklahoma Sooners staff that also included future White Sox pitching farmhands J.B. Olson and Jake Elliott, Hansen was actually considered a candidate for the first overall pick in the 2016 draft — that is, until control issues got the best of him.