2027 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 90: Carson Jacobs
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Carson Jacobs
Right-Handed Relief Pitcher
6´9´´
215 pounds
Age: 26
2025 South Side Sox Top 100 Prospect Ranking71
2026 South Side Sox Top Prospect Ranking 86
2026 High Level Birmingham (AA)
Age relative to high level -0.6 years
SSS rank among all right-handed relievers in the system 15
Overall 2026 season stats 2-2 ⚾️ 32 games (7 finishes) ⚾️ 43 2/3 IP ⚾️ 3.71.ERA ⚾️ 62 K ⚾️ 43 BB ⚾️ 1.695 WHIP ⚾️ 0.7 WAR
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If you’re jumping center against 6´9´´behemoth Carson Jacobs, you know what you’re in for. Facing him in the batter’s box, against a reach that releases the ball close enough to tickle your chin, is another matter entirely.
Jacobs has used his height to great advantage in his year-and-change in the White Sox system. The White Sox ignored his stats at the baseball hotbed of North Dakota State University in 2023 (2-5, 34 innings, 6.62 ERA) and snapped him up immediately after the draft as a UDFA. With no inhibitions, the club put the tall righty right to work, and its confidence paid off handsomely, as Jacobs busted out 6 1⁄3 innings while allowing just one earned run.
Despite that small sample size greatness, it’s only fair the White Sox packed Jacobs back up for a repeat ACL tour to start 2024 — and it was only fair Jacobs murdered ACL batters once more (3.22 ERA in 22 1⁄3 innings, plus his first pro save). From there, Jacobs did time in both Kannapolis and Winston-Salem, ending the year with a sparkling 2.37 ERA over 31 games. With 19 of those games being finishes, it’s clear the White Sox want to slot Jacobs in as a setup/closer short man.
While Jacobs had been killing it through his first two summers with the Sox, 2025 turned out to be another matter entirely. The righty’s peripherals held steady, except for one key spot: Hitters caught up to him, with a dramatic increase in hits per nine (5.7 H/9 in 2024, up to 8.4). That’s a worrying sign, as Jacobs was age-appropriate for High-A, where he pitched all but two of his games.
One bright spot for the reliever is that the White Sox thought highly enough of him in spite of a rough 2025 to send him on an audition to the Arizona Fall League. There, Jacobs saw action in eight games to a 4.50 ERA — and he was lucky to get away with just that, having walked 11 batters for a 16.5 BB/9.
Jacobs tasted Double-A for two games in 2025, and jumped right back to Double-A for 2026. And, back with the Barons, he was used somewhat sparingly. He never spent time on the IL, at least officially, but didn’t even make his season debut until the end of April. And in spite of relieving all year, his rest between appearances often more closely resembled a rotation arm, sitting for upwards of a week between games.
When he was on the mound, Jacobs was stingier with contact, but offset that with a wild streak that raised his overall WHIP. Bottom line, though, Jacobs improved his ERA, with run prevention that should see him get time in Charlotte in 2027, if not when camp breaks then soon after.
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