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Very positive article from Forbes about the Sox bringing up Colson and how he cared In Colorado. https://www.forbes.com/sites/philrogers/2025/07/07/colson-montgomery-joins-white-sox-riding-a-wave-of-confidence/

He could get hot for the Brewers .He always seemed to have at least one very hot month in the season. In his career June was by far his best month with an .820 OPS . Next was August .745 OPS. Last year he had a .933 OPS in June. Sept/Oct .813 2023 may have been his most consistent year. June .811 OPS ,2 months above .750 and 2 months above .700 but below .750 . 2022 April/ March .933 OPS , June .800, August .810 . 2021 July .863 OPS with 4 other months between between .700 - .750 and he tanked in Sept/Oct to .251 OPS. He was probably pooped. Lots of games in LF and he had never played a season that long before. Not even close . 94 games in LF, 15 RF , 23 1st Base , 6 DH.

21 wasn't it 😋

Fitting way to end the game with a smooth pick at SS by Montgomery.

He's got a future somewhere if the bat stays legit. He's now comfortable at this level.

Taylor massacred that pitch.

If you actually think that I don't know what to tell you . We had plenty of people here giving strong reasons why calling him up isn't any kind of disaster. I'm sure the decision makers had discussions that covered more than hey he's swinging well and we're going into Coors against a bunch of righties.

Reverse jinx worked ! 😂

Leasure in to walk a couple guys before the tying grannie 😋

Nice he got out of a major jam .Yesterday after the game in the game thread I was hoping he could go 5 with 3 given up.Got 5 with 2.

There are worse starting pitchers in baseball than Cannon, plenty of them. This isn't a 16 team league any more.

Sosa Power ! Poor Teel hitting it hard but 2 long fly out for his efforts .

He swings hard .I like it just needs to learn the strike zone a little better.

Baldwin double RBI and Montgomery, 1st hit a triple, RBI. Yessss !

Unlike Fedde he's had MLB success before and although he hasn't pitched since the beginning of the season like Fedde did you just can't step onto a mound and get MLB hitters out for as long and as well as he has without a lot of talent but also the changes he made to more fundamental levels pertaining to his his health. His age shouldn't be a concern for any team looking to bolster their chances of winning in the playoffs. Right now at worst he's a #3 starter on most playoff teams but we are a long way from the playoffs . He should fetch a little more than Fedde did but it's hard to know exactly what Fedde was worth since he was traded In a package deal. Kopech certainly was a big part of that package .

There's no reason for the talent evaluators on the Sox to be pinning AAAA labels on any productive minor leaguer since any player is capable of reaching unexpected heights. Sure pedigree counts but so does production.Slapping labels on players is much more of a fan thing than it is real talent evaluators who know that baseball talent takes time to develop unlike a lot of instant success of more physical oriented sports like basketball and football. Fans have a difficult time separating their baseball prospect lack of patience with development from the other more instant prospect success sports. Baseball coaches recognize your strengths but basically work with what the players have to improve upon to reach the next level. It's way more of changing sometimes very fundamental things that start in your head not your physical talent. It's way more about thinking the game and approach than it is finding mechanical flaws. But you need people who can combine the mental and physical to truly develop picks more consistently outside of the 1st round that separates good from bad systems.

You're not giving the people who do this for a living much credit if you think it's because of " one hot week".

With those long levers he's going to get jammed a lot until he proves he can rotate this hips open quickly and keep the ball fair in the air. Or at least get his body out of the way. Pitchers gotta do what they do neutralize strengths and you don't want him barreling it up with thos long arms extended. Some of the best HR hitters can kill you inside when they miss there spot . That HR Baldwin hit yesterday typical down and in breaking pitch off the plate both low and inside that he jumped all over. You pull that, get out in front of it while it's hanging there even in that location and you hit it a long way . Also Colson will be seeing your typical sliders at his back foot, fastballs up and out of the zone and sliders & curves backdoor.

Since May 20th lowest ERA Framber Valdez 1.57 Houser 1.60 Skubal 1.64 Degrom 1.97 Kikuchi 2.05 Funny all the ERA for Houser ,Skubal and Degrom are the same it's just the guy at the top is different.

The one on the post game show had Framber Valdez 1st. So maybe a slightly different time period .

Beni has HR swing now.

Luckily Houser was pitching not Cannon. I don't think Cannon is going to fair very well in that stadium. He seems to be a flyballs pitcher. However It's not good to underestimate him because he knows what he doing out there. He just doesn't execute it. The command still needs work. Maybe he can give the Sox 5 decent innings . Anything more than 3 runs and I don't trust the offense to step up. But it can happen.

That's what we want.

If it's a pitcher slight chance .Hitter, no way but maybe a couple of promising low level position guys.

It's more about his body of work since they got him. He's got the lowest 2nd lowest ERA in baseball in the last idk I forget but that part of the post game show should be on YouTube soon under CHSN. Post game shows almost always are . Usually the 1st 20 or so minutes of it.