Chris Getz Shares Injury Update On Chicago White Sox Prospect Colson Montgomery

Colson Montgomery's Thursday night came with a few highs and lows.

He started off strong, slugging a solo home run 435 feet to center field off a sinker. In his third at-bat with the Triple-A Charlotte Knights, he scorched another home run, this one with an exit velocity of 108 mph to right field off a curveball. That marked his second two-home run game of the season, both since May 24.

But during his next time up, a 91.6 mph sinker hit Montgomery's wrist. He didn't play Friday, but early indications are that he shouldn't be out long.

"X-rays were negative," general manager Chris Getz told reporters Friday in Chicago. "There's some soreness in there because he got hit pretty good. We're glad that he dodged a bullet there, so to speak. ... Unfortunately, he did get hit, but he looks to be in a good spot. We hope to minimize the swelling and hope to get him back in the lineup."

Montgomery returned to Charlotte on May 13 after spending about two weeks at the team facility in Arizona, working with director of hitting Ryan Fuller after a slow start to the season. In 16 games since then, Montgomery is 16-for-58 (.276) with five doubles, four home runs, 10 RBI, seven walks and 15 strikeouts.

"I haven't seen consecutive home runs, or two home runs in a game, like that from Colson Montgomery, let alone the distance in which he struck them and the swings that he took," Getz said. "Yesterday was a good day to pull off a win like we did at the major league level and look down not too far, down in Charlotte, to see Colson hit two home runs."

The White Sox see Montgomery as part of the future, and Getz talked about what goes into deciding when to promote him to the big leagues.

"It's really about getting him in the position where we feel like he can have quality at-bats up here," Getz said. "There's different ways to measure that. It's how he's handling the zone, how his bat path is traveling through the zone. Much less than just results, the surface level results. Obviously you look at how hard a player is hitting the ball and last night was an example of putting together some effective swings. Overall you want them to make good decisions, you do, and swing at pitches he's supposed to and lay off pitches he shouldn't be swinging at. Obviously the major league level is much different than the minor league level. Players, when you get up here, sometimes you can get exposed quickly and we want to minimize that, we do, and put him in a good position. But I can speak for his confidence level and I know it's growing on a daily basis."

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