2025 MLB Draft Profile: Steele Hall
NAME: Steele Hall
SCHOOL: Hewitt-Trussville High School (AL)
POSITION: SS
HEIGHT/WEIGHT: 6’0”/180
B/T: R/R
D.O.B: 7/24/2007
COMMITMENT: University of Tennessee
Scouting Report
Steele Hall has become one of the hottest names in draft circles in the past couple of months after his season at Hewitt-Trussville High School in Alabama. Teams love selecting prep players that are young for this class and Hall fits the bill. He is one of the youngest players in the draft after reclassifying and will still be 17-years-old when he hears his name called this July. Hall’s senior season earned him the Alabama Sports Writers Association Mr. Baseball Award, where he hit .484 with eight home runs, 35 RBI and 46 runs scored. He also sported a 20/14 BB/K ratio.
Scouts who have been out to see Hall this spring agree on one thing: his speed. Hall is easily one of the best runners in this class, with some evaluators even giving his speed an 80 grade on the 20-80 scale. This shows up on the tape easily with his base-stealing ability and translates out in the field at shortstop. Hall is a quick-twitch athlete with all the ability to stick at the position at the next level. His arm strength at the position projects as a plus tool and the range to be a good defender at the very least in the pro ranks. Hall’s slick glove work and fast release adds into his tantalizing defensive profile.
His offensive profile is going to determine the impact he makes at the next level. MLB Pipeline ranks his hit and power tool at 50 and 45, respectively. Hall performed well on the summer circuit last year to prompt his reclassification, and the added size of 15-20 pounds has only helped his skills at the plate. Perfect Game notes that he is “consistently on barrel and is able to drive the ball to all fields.” At this point in time, he possesses more hit over power, but that could change as there is a ton of projection to dream on with him.
With some more size packed on to his 180 pound frame, 15-20 home runs is well within the range of possibilities for him. Evaluators agree that his approach could use some work once he joins a professional organization. MLB Pipeline notes that he is “a bit of a free swinger who struggles to recognize secondary pitches.” If a team is able to tweak his approach and tighten up his swing decisions, there is immense upside in him especially with the long runway of being young for the class.
Baseball America ranks Steele Hall as the #15 overall player in the draft class. The publication notes that the 5-11, 175 pounder is an exceptional athlete who added strength to his dynamic tools. The Alabama prep is tantalizing because of the comparisons to a young Trea Turner and the fact that teams adore young players; especially plus athletes who will stay at shortstop or play center field.
MLB Pipeline has Hall ranked as the 12th overall player in the class and recent FutureSox guest Tyler Jennings at Just Baseball slots Hall in at 18. He has the chance to join rarified air as the first Alabama prep middle infielder to go in the first round since 1971 according to MLB Pipeline. Hall has continued to rise up draft boards as scouts become more enamored with his skill set and projection at such a young age.
Why Would the White Sox Draft Steele Hall?
In Mike Shirley’s first five drafts, shortstop is the only other position he has drafted other than left-handed pitcher. First-round picks Jacob Gonzalez and Colson Montgomery have both stalled in the upper level of the minors, but have recently shown much improvement to believe in the development structure of the organization. Franchises can never have enough prep shortstop profiles in their organizations, especially in a draft year where that most likely lines up with selecting the best player available at 10.
On a recent FutureSox podcast with James Fox and Ian Eskridge, Jeff Ellis of Locked on Guardians discussed the merits of Steele Hall and the rest of the prep class. James has noted that “high level” White Sox decision makers are enamored with the Alabama teenager.
The White Sox have been linked to prep bats during this draft cycle and specifically going in to see Hall at numerous points this spring. They seem to be doing their due diligence of the top prep bats as they have been linked to Billy Carlson, Jojo Parker, and Daniel Pierce in mock drafts. Hall factors in as a possible pick at 10 if Carlson and Parker are already gone. The Sox would most likely be weighing him against the likes of any of the college arms that fall.
This is the perfect year for the CBA rules to affect the White Sox, as there is not a unanimous selection at #1 and throughout the top-10. The South Siders will be in a great position to inject another instant impact player into the system, which has added many in the last calendar year. Steele Hall is a bet on the upside of a player who has nothing left to prove in the prep ranks, and a bet on the player development staff to mold him into a key piece of the next contending Sox team.
Mock Draft Outcomes
In the MLB Draft Notebook 4.0 here at FutureSox, James Fox slotted Steele Hall to the White Sox at #10 overall, stating that he is one of the prep players the organization has been linked to. In Mock Draft 2.0 however, James sent Hall to the Texas Rangers with the 12th overall selection. Carlos Collazo at Baseball America projected Hall to the Tampa Bay Rays at #14 overall in Mock Draft 5.0.
Keith Law of The Athletic also has heard much of the same as he linked the White Sox to Hall while projecting him at #25 overall to the San Diego Padres. In ESPN’s most recent mock draft from Kiley McDaniel, Hall is picked at 12 as well. At MLB Pipeline, Jonathan Mayo has Hall going at 14 to the Rays, as does Mock Draft 2.0 at Just Baseball. Just Baseball specifically notes that Hall “will appeal to several model-driven teams in this range,” like the Rays, Giants, and Red Sox.
