The Chicago White Sox have nothing to play for this season besides pride and the future. So it makes complete sense for them to begin calling up top prospects to provide them experience at the big league level.
Colson Montgomery, one of those blue chip players in the minors, is expected to be called up and on the active roster Friday when the White Sox play Colorado Rockies.
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Montgomery, a 2021 first round pick, has been crushing the ball at the Triple-A level for Chicago with the Charlotte Knights.The 23-year-old shortstop stands 6-foor-3 and weighs 230 pounds.
SS Colson Montgomery will be called up to make his Major League debut Friday, per multiple reports.
The #WhiteSox 2021 first-rounder has a 1.580 OPS over his past six games at Triple-A: https://t.co/hhu5QML841 pic.twitter.com/3nfwVB44uU
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He was a standout basketball player in high school, setting a career scoring record for Southridge High School in Indiana along with shining on the baseball diamond.Â
Montgomery was offered an opportunity to walk-on to the Indiana Hoosiers basketball team if he attended college to play baseball there, but the White Sox instead drafted him No. 22 overall.Â
Despite some struggles last year at Charlotte, he still hit 18 home runs in 130 games. This year, he has 11 homers and 32 RBI between two stops in the minors.Â
MLB.com has Montgomery as the No. 5 prospect in the organization behind Noah Schultz, Kyle Teel, Braden Montgomery and Hagen Smith. Schultz and Smith are both pitchers, Teel a catcher and Braden Montgomery an outfield.
Chicago, who sits dead-last in the American League Central standings, has lost its last two at the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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