2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 30

For the sixth “true” time (discounting Round 1), in back-to-back votes, and for the third time in the last five rounds a first-time candidate defeated the incumbent field to become our next top prospect, as Shane Smith won Round 29, with 37 of 200 votes (19%):

Smith, just acquired this winter as the No. 1 pick in the Rule 5 draft from Milwaukee, is making his debut in our Prospect Vote. Though a swingman, he’s rated this year as a starter and thus becomes our ninth righty starter to advance — yes, almost one-third of our Vote winners so far are RHSPs:

Here are the past No.