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They have a tough decision to make with him.

Tigers beat the sad sack Royals. Detroit 7 back in the loss column, 6 overall. Detroit is playing good baseball TBH. If they get hot they'd scare me more than Cle. We'll see what they do with Skubal.

He also hits well against lefties IIRC

I'll let the FGs analysis serve as most the analytics part of this one and focus on Colson's story more. Colson Montgomery was born in 2022 in a town called "Holland" in Indiana. Google suggests Holland is a one stoplight town at most, but Colson had a leg up on his small town brethren: his father, who was a two sport juco player in hoops and baseball and Colson's older bro -- who Colson wanted to beat at everything said his pops. His dad talks about his early career: Sure enough, Colson would make that dream happen when he was selected 22nd overall in the 2021 MLB draft. At 6-4" on a steady 215lb frame, with a sweet lefty stroke and ability to play up the middle he was a valued commodity coming out of HS. Here is one report from my local guy here at Lookout Landing: And I'd be remiss to not throw this in: After being drafted Colson impressed immediately at draft camp, including this memorable moment with La Russa: https://x.com/whitesox/status/1481028377624649730 In his first full pro ball season at 22, Colson slashed 274/381/429 across A, high A and AA. The hype was rising, and entering the 2023 season MLB named him the 38th best prospect in MLB, one slot behind our friend Miguel Vargas. Things would get even better prospect ranking wise, with the ceiling the floor as the kids say and in 2024 the top was reached prospect wise with MLB having him 9th. But, as well know, progress isn't linear. Thanks Rick. Montgomery slowly backslid, with questions about pretty much everything leading up to his "reset" last spring in Arizona. Just Baseball summed up it like this in hindsight: The rest is history, or gravy if you're a Sox fan. Colson has gone to produce 5.2 fWAR in his first 684 MLB PA. If he's not quite a superstar, he's certainly a star. The defense clears at SS for the foreseeable future, the power is elite, and the other stuff doesn't really matter too much for now. There's concerns obviously about his back, swing speed given said back, contact rate, and his long term position, but you won't blame any of us Sox fans for just enjoying this ride. At worst he settles in as a solid regular that flames out prematurely due to injury (think Joe Crede), at middle case he produces about 15 WAR career before he slides over to 3rd and gives us another 10 before he hits his age 33 season and the Sox make a decision. At best he improves his hit tool and patience without sacrificing power, remains an above avg defensive SS, and challenges for MVPs while helping lead postseason charges for years to come. Not bad.

Haase was a terrible defensive catcher, but he had some big ab's against the Sox.

Former Tigers’ catcher Eric Haase released by SFG Joey Bart and Wells/Fortes if Yankees trade for Hunter Goodman are other possibilities

Had no idea. That's awesome.

Doesn’t mean all that much until AA/AAA, but good sign of aggressiveness and lack of injury fears….sprint speed over 28? 29?

Looks like a case of Steve Blass disease and that is a diagnosis few recover from.

Walk, double, walk, walk. Pulled.

He also has like 30+ steals.

Fauske 3-3 with a 2B and BB. Rocking a nice .396 OBP.

T.Sato is the obvious target with no position players even getting $100 million plus and the Kyle Tucker deal weighing as well, not to mention Bichette. Itoh on the pitching front, but Imai/Sasaki causing some consternation there. Itoh not a fire baller, mid 90s, more like a Davis Martin type.

Wonder what the price of Trevor Rogers and Rico Garcia would be from Baltimore? Both are rentals that shouldn’t cost a ton and would fill roles nicely for us

Danks Keuchel Lynn eviscerated the notion of long term deals for pitchers…not that they ever tried signing a true star, even Tanaka with NY was a step below that. Ofc Z.Wheeler FA year, too.

Josh Rojas RBI single lol. 3-3. Troy Melton pitching like a Cy candidate these days.

So happy to be tracking a different number.

“In there every day” the key point

Looks like light hitting Outman trying to block Skubal trade. Three run homer to put Detroit up late… Surely Josh Rojas will save KC with Witt out. Detroit would pull to 49-54 with Houston Balt Minnesota and Seattle or Texas ahead. Would be 4 gb for WC, 6 for Central. All signs are Minnesota being willing to sell anyone but Buxton (can refuse any trade) and the young core players…

Sox have two other obscure catchers who are hitting well: James Taussig and Kaleb Freeman. Like Boston, they are both 23, so not young. But they have both been really good. I doubt they are prospects beyond hitting in A ball, but it may be a good omen for the Sox hitter development program.

Yeah the trade worked out well. The extension did not.

KC already has a nice newer basketball facility. Not sure enough of a population base for most of the mega concerts. Also depends how far out in Johnson County or Wyandotte, where the KS Speedway and current major concert venue are located. Then there’s also Starlight and Midland theatres.

Ray is almost 35 and JR will pay him $8.33 million for two months of pedestrian work, especially moving over from a homer-preventing stadium to GRF? And give away 2-3 prospects to boot?