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He was drafted in '22, began '23 at low A, advanced to WS after 66 games and then Birmingham after 31 games where he played 30 games. Restarted AA in '24 and advanced to AAA where he played 48 games, and has now been the best hitter in the minors less than 24 months after he was playing in Kannapolis. What else could he do? Either he can hit or he can't

He's only had two full years in minors and advanced two levels each year. Not sure what else he could do in that situation

Was Getz responsible for the Montgomery draft selection?

Someone posted he hit .333 as a senior playing high school in Indiana. Not sure if thats true but if it is, it seems insanely mediocre for a first round draft pick. Maybe picking him was the mistake . He hasn't been particularly good above A ball. Could be he just doesn't have that much talent

It's OK I thought you knew what can't means

I really dont get playing Amaya and his .080 slugging percentage over Workman. What they pick him up for, just to look at him?

It doesn't have to make sense. Sox are rebuilding and need bats. Worrying about match ups is pointless at this point

They can though. They could carry four OFers with Baldwin able to play there, or they could cut Amaya with Baldwin and workman covering SS or they could cut Dalbec who would be redundant anyway

It's not even the biggest stretch of the last 12 hours

That's manslaughter! JR's a menace! Killed by the Sox, what a sad state of affairs

Madrigal's faith tore the club apart? That seems like kind of ludicrous assertion. He wasn't even on the team anymore when everything went to s%*#

Wait a minute. You sure that wasn't against the Twins? This is game I was thinking of, Aug 31: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHA/CHA201108310.shtml The Sox were down 7-3 going into bottom of the 8th, scored one in eighth and two in ninth, when Lillibridge was due up with Paulie on deck. Lillibridge had walked and homered and Ozzie sent in Dunn for him to whiff, killing the rally

I was at that game as well with my dad and had the same impression. Lillibridge was on fire at the time. I must have ranted an hour straight from the moment Dunn stepped out of the dugout

And '23 was his first full pro season.

I'll take a Derrick Lee if you've got one, but I don't think the Sox are in position to be that picky

I don't think Montgomery is that well rated defensively

According to fangraphs it's 8.9. According to statcast 13.1, but that still results in 8th from the bottom in mlb. Which puts him in some very bad company. Considering he has expressed that he has zero interest in adjusting his approach, seems unlikely to improve much

Can't be any worse than Vaughn on the bases

He is?? News to me

His line drive percentage is 8.9% which has to be close to the worst in the league

Soxtalk. Where the mods ARE the trolls

Dude's hitting .354/.432/.732. That's about as Ruthian as we're going to get out of a minor leaguer

I think we all know there's a decent chance he fails. At worst though, he should still save us a few runs on defense compared to Vaughn, if reports are true

Ain't no ham like Birmingham

I really thought Vaughn's production '22-23 was just a launching point from a guy adjusting to mlb. Amazing how his and the team's performance since make those numbers look halfway decent. Don't think I've ever been more wrong about a hitter in my life. Expected he'd be a .300/25 HR along with strong obp guy with some peak .900+ OPS seasons