{"id":988353,"date":"2026-08-08T05:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/988353\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:58:14","slug":"chicago-white-sox-calling-up-hagen-smith-and-tanner-mcdougal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/988353\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago White Sox calling up Hagen Smith and Tanner McDougal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago White Sox are calling up two of their top pitching prospects in Hagen Smith and Tanner McDougal, a source confirmed to the Tribune late Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, the team\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2024\/07\/16\/chicago-white-sox-in-the-2024-mlb-draft-pick-arkansas-lhp-hagen-smith-at-no-5\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2024 first-round pick<\/a>, has a 4.32 ERA in 20 outings (14 starts) for Triple-A Charlotte. The lefty is ranked the No. 2 prospect in the Sox system, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/prospects\/whitesox\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to MLB.com<\/a>. Smith has been getting work as a reliever recently.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, 22, has a 3.88 ERA in 43 career minor-league outings (37 starts) over three seasons in the Sox system.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Chicago White Sox starting pitcher Tanner McDougal participates in media day during Spring Training at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Ariz., on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026. (Eileen T. Meslar\/Chicago Tribune)\" width=\"6352\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/CTC-SOX-SPRING-TRAINING-Photo-Day-80_259602100.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"32998492\" \/>White Sox pitching prospect Tanner McDougal participates in media day during  spring training at Camelback Ranch on Feb. 17, 2026, in Glendale, Ariz. (Eileen T. Meslar\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<p>McDougal, 23, also has been getting work out of the bullpen. The right-hander has spent a bulk of his 2026 season with the Knights, compiling a 2.86 ERA in 15 appearances (six starts). MLB.com ranks McDougal as the No. 4 prospect in the Sox system.<\/p>\n<p>A fifth-round pick in 2021, McDougal has a 4.45 career ERA in 94 outings (81 starts) over five minor-league seasons <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/02\/28\/chicago-white-sox-noah-schultz-tanner-mcdougal-hagen-smith\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the Sox system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dailywhitesox\/status\/2085930399801192505\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ian Eskridge<\/a>\u00a0of FutureSox initially reported the news of the call-ups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago White Sox are calling up two of their top pitching prospects in Hagen Smith and Tanner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":988354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,1274,396355,352189,5386,1818,396353,396354],"class_list":["post-988353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicago-white-sox-pitching-prospects","tag-hagen-smith","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-tanner-mcdougal","tag-triple-a-charlotte"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117058360727084168","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/988354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}