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Colson Montgomery

Chicago White Sox American League CentralSS

Age: 24
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #12

Born: February 27, 2002 in Holland, IN, United States
MLB debut: July 4, 2025
Drafted: 2021, round 1
High school: Southridge

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dbWAR: 4.2
PA: 638
AVG: .197
OBP: .282
SLG: .403
wRC+: 89

Colson Montgomery is a shortstop for the Chicago White Sox. In 2026 he hit 31 home runs and knocked in 87 RBIs, notching 112 hits across 638 plate appearances in 153 games. His batting average was .197, 19.2% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .282 clip and slugged .403, for an OPS of .685, 4.7% lower than the league mark of .719 — 10th of 14 on his team, and 270th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.6 mph off the bat, hit 41.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 11.4% of them and made contact on 62.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 89 wRC+ puts his offence 11% below average. That comes to 1.8 dbWAR — -9.2 runs with the bat, +0.6 for the ballpark, -0.9 on the bases, -0.2 on double plays, +7.3 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2026 regular season.

wRC+89

wOBA.301

ISO.206

BB%8.5%

WAR1.8

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +17.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

																					Trend
2026	CWS	153	638	112	31	87	1	54	227	.197	.282	.403	.206	.260	8.5%	35.6%	.301	-9.2	89	1.8
2025	CWS	71	284	61	21	55	0	25	83	.239	.311	.529	.290	.263	8.8%	29.2%	.356	+9.5	129	2.4

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Colson Montgomery's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	CWS	Postseason total · through Oct 10	7	26	21	2	5	1	1	2	2	11	.238	.385	.429	.813
		Wild Card	2	8	6	1	1	0	1	1	1	3	.167	.375	.667	1.042
		ALDS	5	18	15	1	4	1	0	1	1	8	.267	.389	.333	.722

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	197	177	42	10	13	59	.237	.315	.463	.341	29.9%
vs RHP	441	391	70	21	41	168	.179	.268	.376	.283	38.1%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 341 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 11.4%
Exit velocity: 88.6
Max exit velo: 115.4
Hard hit: 41.1%
Sweet spot: 35.2%
Launch angle: 23.6°

Barrel rate11.4%

Exit velocity88.6 mph

Hard hit rate41.1%

Contact rate62.6%

A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2026.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .243.

Situational hitting

How Colson Montgomery hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	638	—	—	—	—	—	—	.197	.282	.403	.301
Bases empty	328	290	60	20	21	31	117	.207	.296	.448	.325
Runner on first	125	111	24	5	15	10	36	.216	.304	.405	.313
Runners on	310	278	52	11	66	23	110	.187	.268	.356	.275
RISP	185	167	28	6	51	13	74	.168	.243	.323	.249

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.