{"id":36804,"date":"2025-07-04T01:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T01:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/36804\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T01:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T01:36:10","slug":"white-sox-to-promote-colson-montgomery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/36804\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox To Promote Colson Montgomery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White Sox will promote Colson Montgomery<\/a><\/strong> for this weekend\u2019s series against the Rockies, reports Kris Norton<\/a> of WITZ Radio in Indiana. Montgomery is already on the 40-man roster, so the Sox only need to make an active roster move.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first MLB call for the 23-year-old, who\u2019ll likely make his MLB debut tomorrow against Colorado\u2019s Antonio Senzatela<\/a><\/strong>. Chicago\u2019s first-round pick in 2021, the lefty-hitting shortstop was one of the sport\u2019s top prospects not too long ago. Montgomery placed among Baseball America\u2019s top 50 minor league talents entering each of the past three seasons. BA ranked him as the best prospect in the Sox\u2019s system each year from 2022-24.<\/p>\n

Montgomery is listed at 6\u20193\u2033 and 230 pounds, giving him big raw power potential for a middle infielder. A very patient plate approach led to strong on-base marks against low minors pitching, but he has had a tougher time against more polished arms. Montgomery spent all of last year at Triple-A Charlotte, where he hit .214\/.329\/.381 in 130 games. He connected on 18 home runs with a strong 12% walk rate but struck out in nearly 29% of his trips to the plate.<\/p>\n

Chicago needed to add Montgomery to the 40-man roster last offseason to keep him out of the Rule 5 draft. He\u2019d surely have been selected despite the middling Triple-A numbers, so that was an easy call for the front office. They optioned him back to Charlotte to begin the season, and he\u2019s had similar concerns in his second crack at the level. He has struck out a third of the time while batting .218\/.298\/.435 in 55 games.<\/p>\n

While the season numbers don\u2019t exactly demand a promotion, they\u2019re weighed down by an atrocious April. Montgomery had a serviceable May and was very productive in June, batting .281 with six homers and 11 extra-base knocks in 16 games. The plate discipline concerns persist \u2014 he struck out 22 times while drawing only five walks in 71 plate appearances last month \u2014 but he\u2019d shown enough from a power perspective for the team to give him a look.<\/p>\n

The Indiana native has played four games at third base this year but has otherwise been a full-time shortstop in his minor league career. It\u2019s unlikely the Sox would call him up if they weren\u2019t prepared to give him everyday playing time at his natural position. Rookie\u00a0Chase Meidroth<\/a><\/strong> has gotten the playing time there. Meidroth, acquired from the Red Sox in the Garrett Crochet<\/a><\/strong> trade, is hitting .260 with a solid .347 on-base percentage. He hasn\u2019t shown any kind of power, but the disciplined approach is probably enough to stay in the lineup.<\/p>\n

Meidroth\u2019s defensive grades are serviceable, but most scouting reports project him as a second baseman. The Sox could slide him to the keystone and move\u00a0Lenyn Sosa<\/a><\/strong> to third base to push\u00a0Josh Rojas<\/a><\/strong> out of the mix. Sosa is a known commodity as a utility type as well, so the focus should be on getting Montgomery and Meidroth into the lineup on a daily basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White Sox will promote Colson Montgomery for this weekend\u2019s series against the Rockies, reports Kris Norton of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[29987,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-36804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-colson-montgomery","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114792404353386007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36804","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=36804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}