Oscar Colás is a Cuban outfielder who signed with the Chicago White Sox as an international free agent in January 2022. While still early in his professional career, Colás has generated a lot of excitement and is considered one of the top prospects in the White Sox farm system. This excitement has extended to the baseball card collecting community, where interest in Oscar Colás cards has skyrocketed.

Colás was rated as one of the top international prospects available in the 2022 class by Baseball America and MLB.com. Standing at 6’5” and listed at 210 pounds, Colás possesses an intimidating presence at the plate with impressive raw power from the left side of the plate. In addition to his power potential, Colás showed excellent contact skills, batting ability, and plate discipline in video from his pre-professional career in Cuba.

Coming out of Cuba, there was little to no baseball card production of Oscar Colás while he was developing his game. Once he signed with the White Sox, card companies quickly jumped at the chance to produce rookie cards of a prospect generating so much early hype. Topps, Panini, Leaf, and others all included Colás in their 2022 international and/or rookie card products released throughout the year.

One of the earliest releases to feature Colás cards was 2022 Topps International. This set included a base Oscar Colás card (card #224) from his pre-White Sox days in Cuba. While a low numbered parallel, the base Colás rookie became a highly sought after and valuable card for collectors due to his increasing prospect status. Around the same time, Panini released cards of Colás as part of their 2022 Prizm International set, including a green prizm parallel (/99) that also gained value in the ensuing months.

Colás would make his official White Sox organizational debut in 2022 with the ACL (rookie level) White Sox. This led to Topps, Leaf, and Panini all adding Oscar Colás rookie cards to Flagship/High-End products later in 2022, greatly increasing the total number of Colás cards available to collectors compared to earlier releases. Topps Chrome Update included an Oscar Colás pink refractor parallel (/150) that attained mid-range prospect card prices. Meanwhile, Leaf Baseball included an autographed Colás rookie card that commanded premium values due to its rarity and prestigious Leaf branding.

While playing in rookie ball, Colás did not disappoint on the field. In 43 total games between the ACL White Sox and Arizona Complex League White Sox, Colás posted an impressive .304/.408/.509 slash line with 7 home runs in just 156 at-bats. He showed the ability to make consistent hard contact and draw walks that was advertised in his international scouting reports. This breakout 2022 season performance only added to the hype around Colás and demand for his rookie cards from collectors.

Heading into the 2023 season, Colás will likely start at either High-A or Double-A in the White Sox system. If he can continue building on his success from 2022 at a higher minor league level, his prospect stock will rise even further. This would undoubtedly drive collectors to seek out Oscar Colás cards from earlier releases knowing they possess a prospect on the brink of superstardom. Promotion to the highly-regarded White Sox would take his cards to an entirely new stratosphere in demand.

For the time being, Colás rookie cards remain a speculative investment opportunity given his current low professional experience level. Based on his tools, performance thus far, and the excitement from a major market team like the White Sox, Colás cards carry plenty of breakout prospect buzz. Collectors would be wise to acquire affordable Colás rookies now before his inevitable rise up prospect rankings and potential major league debut create a scarcity in the marketplace. Only time will tell how high the Cuban outfielder can ultimately climb, but Oscar Colás is certainly one of the hottest young prospects in baseball card collecting today.