White Sox Minor Keys: June 5, 2026

Baseball America's latest revision to its top 100 prospects list for June wasn't a kind one to the White Sox.

Sam Antonacci fell off the list for the best of reasons -- graduation, and succeeding in the majors -- but Hagen Smith fell out of the top 100 from No. 75 for the reasons you'd suspect ...

Charlotte is one of the most hitter-friendly parks in the sport, so it is understandable when even the most talented arms face resistance in the Queen City. Even so, Smith’s outings have not been long, and they haven’t featured much in the way of control or command, either.

... while Caleb Bonemer's strikeout rate has caused some concern toward the top.

Bonemer’s power will play in any park in the country. The rest of his tool set, however, needs some refinement. He punishes fastballs but struggles against secondaries, and his in-zone miss rate is higher than ideal. Add those factors to a defensive skill set that will likely require him to play a corner—thus putting more pressure on his bat—and you get a bit of a drop.

It'd probably help if Bonemer stopped getting drilled. He wore two more HBPs on Friday, giving him 15 over 235 plate appearances this season after getting plunked just eight times over 476 PAs in 2025. Another way to put it:

• 2025: One HBP every 59.5 PA
• 2026: One HBP every 15.7 PA

If that sounds severe, it is, because Sam Antonacci's minor-league HBP rate was one every 16.4 PA.

Charlotte 4, Durham 3

• Everson Pereira started his rehab stint by playing seven innings in right field, singling and striking out twice.
• Braden Montgomery hit a three-run homer, walked and struck out twice.
• Jonathan Cannon: 4 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 4 BB, 3 K, 2 WP, 50 of 91 pitches for strikes.

Highlights:

*Montgomery's homer was again hit the opposite way.

Knoxville 8, Birmingham 7 (11 innings)

• Colby Shelton was 0-for-5 with a walk and a strikeout.
• Anthony DePino was 1-for-3 with a sac fly and two walks.
• Samuel Zavala singled, hit a sac fly, walked twiceand struck out twice.
• Jeral Perez went 2-for-6 with a double and a strikeout.
• Gabe Davis: 4 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 1 BB, 7 K, 1 HR, 45 of 70 pitches for strikes.

Hub City 8, Winston-Salem 5 (11 innings)

• Caleb Bonemer went 1-for-4 with a triple, two HBPs and a strikeout.
• George Wolkow was 0-for-5 with a sac fly and a strikeout.
• Kyle Lodise was 0-for-5 with a walk and three strikeouts.
• Boston Smith went 2-for-6 with a strikeout.
• Pierce George's second extra inning didn't go as well as the first: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 4 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, 1 HR, 16 of 26 pitches for strikes.

Hickory 5, Kannapolis 2

• Abraham Nunez went 2-for-4 with a homer.
• Matthew Boughton and Jaden Fauske both were 0-for-4 with a K.
• Alexander Albertus went 1-for-4 with two strikeouts.

ACL White Sox 5, ACL Guardians 4 (7 innings)

• Nick McLain played the entire game in right field, going 0-for-3 with two strikeouts.
• Yordani Soto singled and stole two bases.
• Jose Mendoza was 0-for-3 with two strikeouts.
• Eduardo Herrera went 1-for-2 with a double anda w alk.
• Jordan Rich, 0-for-2 with a sac bunt and a strikeout.
• Alejandro Cruz went 1-for-2 with a double, walk and CS.
• Diego Perez: 1 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 4 BB, 2 K

DSL Giants 21, DSL White Sox 7 (7 innings)

• Felix Lebron went 0-for-4 with a walk and a strikeout.
• Carlos Vielma was 2-for-3 with a walk.
• Fernando Graterol went 1-for-3.
• Sebastian Romero, 0-for-2 with two HBPs and a strikeout.
• Ronald Cardozo was 0-for-2 with two walks.
• Santo Luis, 2-for-3 with a walk.
• Franchel Crisóstomo: 1.2 IP, 5 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 1 HBP.