Colson Montgomery: emerging dynasty player

Welcome back, my friends. It seems that I just wrote about a player yesterday, not last week!

After I have dived into the dynasty value of some catchers in recent weeks, I will go back to the game of the game and I look at Chicago White Sox Shortstop Colson Montgomery.

Montgomery, a top 100 of the preseason, made his MLB debut on July 4, and last month plus a few days he showed why he is an emerging dynasty player.

Without further delay I present Colson Montgomery.

Career statistics

Way to the show

The White Sox set up Colson Montgomery with the 22nd general choice in 2021. Montgomery was a striking basketball and baseball player in Southridge High School in Huntingburg. He set the basketball school record in scoring with 1,966 points and was recruited by Indiana University to come to the school as a baseball player from the stock market and a walk-on basketball player.

But Montgomery did not accept the offer when he signed with the White Sox and immediately started his career as a professional baseball player. It probably didn’t hurt that he received a signing bonus of more than $ 3,000,000. But Montgomery quickly showed why the White Sox was so high for him.

Prior to the 2023 season, he was arranged as the 39th best prospect of Baseball America, 38th by MLB, and 32nd by Baseball Prospectus. Prior to the 2024 season, he was up in the ranking to #15, #9 and #11, before he dropped a bit in the ranking before the start of this season, came in at #39, #39 and #43. The drop in the ranking came after a season from 2023 in which Montgomery sustained an oblique injury in the spring and a back injury during the season, so that he appeared in just 64 games that season.

Colson Montgomery is currently weak in this department. If you look at reconnaissance reports, he has assessed as a 40 to 45 batter, which is lower than the average assessment of 50. As a professional, he has not proven that the scouts are wrong. During his career in the Minor League, he had a stroke average of .246 and a strike output of 24.8%. Those are not the kind of figures that indicates that in the future he has a great success in the Slagsgreeds category – or in the present, by the way.

Due to its first 27 MLB matches, Montgomery has a stroke average of .245 with a strike output of 29.2%. Au. Montgomery hurts himself because he has a pursuit rate of 35% and a touch of 34%. There are many batters with high chase speeds, but when it comes to Montgomery, the difference is that his pursuit contact percentage is only 39%. The MLB average is 58%.

And when swinging on pitches in the zone, Montgomery compared a contact percentage of 79% with the MLB average of 82%. So at the moment there is a lot of swing and miss in the Montgomery game, and unless he starts making some improvement in that area, he will probably remain a .250 Hitter at best.

The good thing is that he can take a walk or at least shown the possibility of taking walks in the minors. On the farm he had a running speed of 12.9%. But so far with the White Sox, its running speed is 7.5%, under the MLB average of 8.4%.

This area makes Colson Montgomery an emerging dynasty player. Scouts gave him a capacity of 55 in power and they may have underestimated that. At the moment he touches home runs with a rate that I doubt will reach in the future, and hits one homer as theseEvery 12 barriers with the SOX, while his Minor League rate was one Homer every 29 barriers. At present, the 162 game average of Montgomery is 48 homers and 144 RBI.

He is not going to maintain that average, but it is nice to see because it is one Check out in his actual power potential. With only 106 plate performances that arrive on Friday, Montgomery has a small sample size when it comes to viewing his data. But so you have to like what he does.

He has a barrel percentage of 15.2% (7.1% is MLB average) and a hard hit percentage of 42.4% (MLB = 36.9%). His Sweet Spot percentage of the launch angle is 41% (MLB = 33%). So he is doing well to walk up the ball and hit hard. There are many players who do that. But add that he has a flight ball percentage of 30% and traveling hard hit balls over the fence.

In short, Montgomery is sold out for power. He often tries to pull the ball, and at the moment he has a pull rate of 45.5% compared to the MLB average of 30.4%. But if this approach leads to 30 to 35 homers and a .240 to .250 stroke average, then that makes him a short stop that is worth it.

As a general runner, Montgomery is not slow. But he’s not fast either. In fact, his spring speed is in the 50th percentile – the definition of average. In 376 career Minor League matches he only stole 15 bases. So far with the White SOX, his big total of Steals is zero.

He is not a threat to steal bases. He can wipe a bag here and there, but if you want to add it because you need help with your stolen bases, Colson Montgomery is not your husband.

The verdict

We all want the perfect player, but they are hard to find. So the next best is to find players who excel in one area. For Montgomery he excels in one area – the ball hits strength. His career SLG in the minors was .414, and so far with the White Sox, it is .526. He will not keep that number, but he will be a player who will snails .450 or so. His swing is designed to lift the ball, and with his ability to take the ball, it will lead to many home runs and doubles in the power alleys.

Montgomery may not stay with ShortStop, because he started 17 games on that place and another 10 out of third base. At the moment that is great because you enable him to move him to a short, third, middle infield or Hoekinveld (depending on what your competition does). But in the future he can settle on the third time. I don’t see that as a problem, because the power as a third baseman is still valuable.

If there is one point of care away from what he does on the record, it is the fact that he has had some problems with injuries. He missed a lot of time in 2023 with a sloping injury, and back issues have also been a problem, so he missed some time this spring. At the moment it doesn’t seem to be a big problem, but back problems always give me a break.

But enough break to pass on to adding Colson Montgomery if I got the chance? No. I love his power potential, and that is the stat that I always go after, while gay lead to RBI, scored runs and high SLG.

He is currently roasted in 39% of Yahoo competitions and only 16% of ESPN competitions. So many owners did not jump on Montgomery’s bandwagon. I suggest you do that.

Thank you for reading and come back next week.