Montgomery and pitcher Noah Schultz are the two players representing the Chicago White Sox at the event that brings together some of baseball\u2019s top prospects.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love being around baseball and the more talent I can be around, the better I feel it makes me,\u201d Montgomery said. \u201cSo I\u2019m excited to meet those guys and to see what they are like, see what kind of process they go through.\u201d<\/p>\n
Montgomery entered Tuesday with a .261\/.344\/.444 slash line with 18 doubles, 10 home runs and 49 RBIs in 76 games between Single-A Kannapolis and High-A Winston-Salem. He is the No. 3 prospect in the Sox organization according to MLB.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have one of our coordinators that says it takes a long time to have a good season and a long time to have a bad season,\u201d Montgomery said. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to figure it out and not give up on yourself and keep thinking through it.\u201d<\/p>\n The Boston Red Sox selected Montgomery in the first round of the 2024 draft and he was acquired by the White Sox<\/a> as part of the Garrett Crochet trade in December<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d say so far my season has been OK,\u201d Montgomery said. \u201cI\u2019m really, really excited to get the chance to go to the Futures Game. Outside of that, I would say it\u2019s been just all right.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the areas I definitely want to continue to stay conscious about is swing decisions. I feel like as I\u2019ve gotten to pro ball, I just kind of wanted to figure it out, go straight into it, see what pitches I can hit and which pitches I can\u2019t hit. From there we\u2019ll iron out the process and the approach and continue to take steps forward.\u201d<\/p>\n Montgomery, 22, is in his first professional season. He spent 2024 recovering from a broken right ankle suffered in the NCAA Super Regional with Texas A&M. Asked why he described his 2025 as \u201cjust all right,\u201d Montgomery added, \u201cJust because I\u2019ve got high expectations for myself and I know what I\u2019m capable of.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cPro ball is a completely new experience for me, it\u2019s different from college,\u201d he said. \u201cSo just wanting to go in there, and you\u2019ll see a whole lot of failure because it\u2019s baseball. But I want to iron out that and iron out my process to where I\u2019m eliminating some of those failures.\u201d<\/p>\n Montgomery is enjoying the growing process.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like we\u2019ve got a really good staff from top to bottom,\u201d Montgomery said. \u201cI\u2019m glad to be working with them and I\u2019m looking forward to what the future holds as I get more accustomed to professional baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n Schultz has spent time at Double-A Birmingham and Triple-A Charlotte during this year, his third professional season. The left-hander, an Oswego East product who the Sox selected in the first round of the 2022 draft<\/a>, entered Tuesday 4-4 with a 4.76 ERA in 15 starts. Schultz has 71 strikeouts in 68 innings.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been a big adjustment, changing to shorter schedules and going deeper in games,\u201d Schultz said of his 2025 during a video conference call last week. \u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of things I\u2019ve been working on. I\u2019m really happy with how my body feels and how I\u2019ve been able to stay healthy throughout the year. I\u2019m looking forward to continuing that.<\/p>\n \u201cThere have been some growing pains and some struggles I\u2019ve had, but there\u2019s also been moments I\u2019m happy with. There\u2019s a lot I can point out, but the only way to go forward with it is to look at the good things I\u2019ve done and try to replicate those the rest of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n Schultz, 21, said the positives include staying strong and staying with velocity throughout games.<\/p>\n \u201cThis year, I\u2019ve gone to the fifth, sixth inning multiple times,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m happy, at the beginning of the year it was almost my velocity was going up deeper into games.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a bunch of little pieces you\u2019ve got to put together, but that was one of the first things I noticed was I was throwing harder later into games which showed the stuff I\u2019m doing behind the scenes, the strength stuff, it\u2019s been working. But it\u2019s making sure I\u2019m putting everything together.\u201d<\/p>\n MLB.com ranks Schultz as the top prospect in the Sox system. This will be his second Futures Game after participating last season<\/a> in Arlington, Texas.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s an honor,\u201d Schultz said. \u201cIt\u2019s something I had a great experience at last year and the opportunity to be able to go back at a different field is awesome and I\u2019m really excited.\u201d<\/p>\n Luis Robert Jr. returns from the IL<\/p>\n![\"Chicago](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CTC-L-white-sox-spring-training-0215-12_219857568.jpg\")
Chicago White Sox prospect Braden Montgomery signs autographs during spring training at Camelback Ranch on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025, in Glendale, Ariz.(Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n