Lenyn Sosa's Hot Finish Sets The Stage For A Big 2025 Season

In less than two weeks, pitchers and catchers will report to Spring Training for the White Sox, officially transitioning to the 2025 season. It will signal the end of the dreadful 2024 season, allowing the players who still remain on the roster to purge the historically bad season from their minds. 

The Opening Day roster will look very different than it did last year, and as the year progresses, some of the White Sox top prospects will join the roster as they earn promotions to Chicago. There are many variables to how a player will perform in a given season, but certain baseball reference websites try to give their best evaluation on how a player will perform for the upcoming season. 

Each year, FanGraphs releases their Steamer projections on how they believe each player will perform in the upcoming year. We will be taking a look at each player’s 2025 projections as we approach Spring Training.

The next player we will take a look at is Lenyn Sosa, who is projected to be among the team leaders in WAR this season.

FanGraphs currently has his projected slash line at .252/.291/.404 with 13 homeruns and 40 RBIs in just 97 games en route to a 1.2 WAR, which is currently projected to be the fourth best on the team.

FanGraphs is very high on Sosa, as those are pretty good numbers for playing in just 97 games. If you projected that over 150 games, he would be hitting close to 20 homeruns, which is a significant amount for a second basemen.

In 100 games last season Sosa hit .254 with eight homeruns and 35 RBIs, so FanGraphs expects his power numbers to increase in 2025.

Sosa has been an interesting player over his White Sox career, as he has been very inconsistent during his time in Chicago. There will be a stretch of games where he looks like an all-star and there will be some cold stretches at the plate and in the field.

Sosa is only 25 years old, so he still has time to develop at the major leagues, but with plenty of infield prospects close to making their debuts, his time to prove himself may be running out.

Lenyn Sosa hits a BOMB and gives the White Sox a 5-0 lead pic.twitter.com/P7EpIvZcIr

— White Sox on CHSN (@CHSN_WhiteSox) September 29, 2024

However, Sosa looked amazing in the Venezuelan Winter League, and when you combine that with his performance at the end of the year where he hit .339 over his last 30 games with four homeruns and 10 RBIs, it shows significant progress.

These are fantastic numbers and he may have figured something out. While it is not a given, it is likely that Sosa will get a chance to compete for everyday at-bats at one of the infield positions. Due to his performance at the end of the season, he could be one of the leaders for those positions going into Spring Training.

With Sosa, it is clear that the talent is there, he just needs to work on becoming a more consistent player. If he does, he could earn an everyday role in Chicago or on another team in the major leagues.