Heading into 2022, Lenyn Sosa — although a heralded enough, young (22) enough prospect, was buried on the infield depth chart.
At best, he would have been ranked third-likeliest to make his major league debut in 2022. The real question would have been which player, slugger José Rodríguez or ace defender Yolbert Sánchez, would make it to the South Side first.
Rodríguez was almost-unequivocally the top hitter in the organization in 2021, starting in Low-A Kannapolis, crushing baseballs all the way to Double-A Birmingham and the Arizona Fall League, poised to see Charlotte by mid-2022 and possibly Chicago by September.