MLB · SS · Chicago White Sox
Colson Montgomery
B/T L/R · 6' 3" · 230 lb · born Holland, IN, USA · age 24 · draft 2021 rd 1 · played SS 96, 3B 37, DH 6 · MLB debut 2025-07-04
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-20): 12 G · .245 AVG · 1 HR · 8 RBI · .630 OPS
528 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The card rack
FlagshipColson Montgomery [Mojo] #68 · 2026 Bowman · 390 recent sales 7N ▲4.4%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-28 · paid links
The rookieColson Montgomery #157 · 2026 Topps · 352 recent sales 7N ▼4.1%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-28 · paid links
Paid link — as an eBay Partner, FVR earns from qualifying purchases. · Flagship = his most-traded card (the market’s reference); the rookie = the top card of his first card year. As of August 28, 2026 · trend is FVR's own nightly archive · prices via SportsCardsPro · what these terms mean
Scout’s note
A first-rounder from Holland, IN, Montgomery has 46 home runs in 178 career games and a .780 OPS — but his last 11 have been brutal: .163 with 16 strikeouts.
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 375 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.
- EV95108.582
- Deserved (xVal)0.43786
- Got (aVal)0.43790
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.01131
today · 30 days ago, against the 330 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
Pre-arbitrationA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $0.80Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.80M
- Service time
- 0 yr 87 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.8M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$798,500 (26)
Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.
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
- $0.80M
- Guaranteed
- $0.80M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
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.
Collect Colson Montgomery
If the signal is right, the cardboard usually finds out later. Current listings:
Colson Montgomery cards on eBay →Paid link — as an eBay Partner, FVR earns from qualifying purchases.
Not financial advice. We take positions only after publication — never before. Misses stay on the record.
The Bureau on Colson Montgomery
The scouting press, in their own words
Colson Montgomery, last 53 games... 227 PA .191 AVG .247 OBP .325 SLG 7 HR 38.8% K https://t.co/AFwBAqzyDT
Umpire favor
+1.7 net runs over 31 graded games — the zone was kind to him on balance.
The line
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →