Alec Hansen announces his retirement

Photo by Jamie Schwaberow/Getty ImagesAlec Hansen, a righthanded pitcher who was a second round pick of the Chicago White Sox in 2016, and one of the top prospects in baseball a few years ago, is retiring, per reports.

Hansen, 27, was a polarizing prospect when he was coming out of the University of Oklahoma in 2016, and was one of the players we discussed as a possibility for Texas to take at #30 that year (they took Cole Ragans instead, you will recall). Hansen had great stuff — upper 90s fastball, three secondaries that flashed plus — but major control issues as well as injury concerns that resulted in him falling to the second round.

After the 2017 season it looked like the ChiSox had…