South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 14: Blake Rutherford

Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images Right Fielder

6´2´´

210 pounds

Age: 24

SSS rank among all right fielders in the system: 3

2021 SSS Top Prospect Vote: 16

2020 SSHP Top Prospect Ranking: 12

2019 SSS Top Prospect Ranking: 8

2018 SSS Top Prospect Ranking: 9

Baseball America noted that some scouts saw Blake Rutherford as a possible “power-hitting center fielder in the Jim Edmonds mold” prior to the 2016 MLB draft. At this point, the White Sox might be happy with Rutherford as a right fielder in the Jim Eisenreich mode.

Rutherford was selected in the first round (18th overall) by the New York Yankees. By 2017, the lefty was playing for the Yankees A-squad in Charleston when he was traded with Ian…