Colson Montgomery #83

Single...Is a 2021 graduate of Southridge High School in Huntingburg, Ind...Helped guide the Raiders to the IHSAA Class 3A state championship...Was a three-sport athlete at Southridge, playing baseball, basketball and football...Entered the 2021 MLB draft rated by MLB.com as the No. 7 infield prospect...Was named to the 2021 All-America Second Team by Baseball American and MaxPreps.

2023

Batted a combined .287/.456/.484 (64-for-223) with 14 doubles, three triples, eight home runs, 37 RBI and 51 runs scored over 64 games between the Arizona Complex League White Sox, Class A Winston-Salem and Class AA Birmingham...Hit .327/.493/.500 (17-for-52) against left-handed pitching and .275/.444/.480 (47-for-171) vs. right-handers...Began the season on the injured list with a back strain...Appeared in 10 rehab games with the ACL Sox before being reinstated from the IL and assigned to Winston-Salem on 7/4...Reached base safely in each of his first 12 games with the Dash, hitting .410/.610/.615 (16-for-39) with two doubles, two homers, eight RBI, 12 runs scored, 16 walks and four HBP...Drew a walk in seven straight games from 7/7-19, including three on 7/16 at Asheville...Reached base fives times on 7/8 vs. Hickory, going 3-for-4 with a double, two RBI, two walks and four runs scored...Was promoted to Birmingham on 8/1, where he reached base safely in 36 of 37 games...Recorded a 20-game, on-base streak from 8/1-29, slashing .274/.436/.479 (20-for-73) with five doubles, two triples, two homers, 16 RBI, 16 walks and 19 runs scored...Fell a triple shy of the cycle on 8/3 vs. Rocket City and a home run short on 8/19 vs. Chattanooga...Posted a 16-game on-base streak from 8/31-9/17, recording a .373 on-base percentage during that span...Played in 20 games with Glendale in the Arizona Fall League, hitting .244/.300/.415 (20-for-82) with three homers and 20 RBI...Was named an AFL Fall Star...Baseball America Preseason Rankings: No. 39 prospect in baseball...No. 1 prospect, Best Athlete and Best Strike-Zone Discipline in the White Sox organization...MLB.com Preseason Rankings: No. 38 overall and No. 11 shortstop prospect in baseball...No. 1 prospect the Sox system.

2022

Combined to hit .274/.381/.429 (96-350) with 17 doubles, two triples, 11 home runs, 47 RBI and 58 runs scored over 96 games between Class A Kannapolis, Class Advanced A Winston-Salem and Class AA Birmingham....Ranked sixth among White Sox minor leaguers in on-base percentage and tied for sixth in walks (54)....Batted .287/.396/.434 (82-286) with eight home runs against right-handed pitchers, compared to .219/.311/.406 (14-64) and three homers vs. lefties...Recorded a season-high five RBI on 4/19 vs. Fredericksburg...Reached base safely in 50 straight games from 4/24-7/17, tied for the second-longest streak in MiLB during the season...hit .344/.448/.519 (63-183) with nine doubles, seven home runs, 24 RBI, 34 runs scored and 21 multi-hit efforts during the streak...Posted a .327/.435/.538 (17-52) slash line over 14 games in May and a .379/.461/.540 (33-87) line over 23 games in June...tallied four straight multi-hit games from 5/14-18 (.529, 9-17)...Was promoted to Winston-Salem on 6/24...hit safely in nine of his first 10 games with the Dash, going 14-36 (.389) with two doubles, two homers and seven RBI...Was promoted to Birmingham on 8/23 as part of the "Project Birmingham" experiment where most of the top prospects in the organization were assigned to the Barons...hit his first professional grand slam on 9/10 vs. Chattanooga...Entered the season rated by Baseball America as the No. 1 prospect, Best Athlete and Best Strike-Zone Discipline in the White Sox organization...also was tabbed by MLB.com as the No.1 prospect in the Sox system.

2021

Made his professional debut with the Arizona Complex League White Sox, starting at shortstop in all 26 games...Batted .412 (7-17) with two doubles and seven RBI with RISP...Went 13-34 (.382) with two doubles, six RBI and five multihit efforts over nine games in September...Was signed/recommended by Sox scout Justin Wechsler.