MLB · RF · Chicago White Sox
Braden Montgomery
B/T S/R · 6' 2" · 220 lb · born Des Moines, IA, USA · age 23 · draft 2024 rd 1 · played RF 108, CF 33, DH 8 · MLB debut 2026-06-09
365 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Braden Montgomery, a 23-year-old switch-hitting right fielder from Des Moines taken in the first round in 2024, has 93 big-league games and a .662 OPS in his debut year. His last six MLB games this October: 6-for-14 with a .905 OPS, though no runs driven in.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 406 qualified major-league hitters — 100+ balls in play this season, the same field the boards are chosen out of. Right is better on every row.
- EV95106.562
- Deserved (xVal)0.35843
- Got (aVal)0.31619
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.03080
today · 30 days ago, against the 375 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
What he’s paid
Not statedA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- Service time
- 0 yr 111 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Chicago White Sox.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $0.78M
- Guaranteed
- $0.78M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
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The Bureau on Braden Montgomery
The scouting press, in their own words
Before the big leagues. Before the ALDS. Braden Montgomery brought the 🧃 to the 2021 #Super60. Take a look back at what the Mississippi native looked like during his senior year of HS. 👀 @prepbaseball | @PrepBaseballMS | @whitesox https://t.co/sxvIjyYdDe
Umpire favor
+0.6 net runs over 37 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Braden Montgomery’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- AL Division Series, Game 4 · CWS vs. CLE · 0-5
- AL Division Series, Game 3 · CWS vs. CLE · 0-3, 1 R, 1 BB
- AL Division Series, Game 2 · CWS vs. CLE · 1-4, 2B, 2 RBI, 1 R
- AL Division Series, Game 1 · CWS vs. CLE · 0-3
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · CWS vs. HOU · 0-4
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · CWS vs. HOU · 2-4, 1 R
The line
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