What does No. 5 prospect Montgomery's hot streak mean for callup timeline?

CHICAGO -- Colson Montgomery, the No. 5 White Sox prospect, according to MLB Pipeline, continued his torrid weekend for Triple-A Charlotte with two home runs Sunday during a 5-3 loss at Toledo.

It’s rare when two home runs indicate a bit of a slow down, but that’s the case for the Knights’ shortstop, who finished 10-for-18 over his last four games. Montgomery had four home runs, seven RBIs, nine runs scored, two doubles and one triple during that unstoppable stretch.

“He has a super high ceiling, one of the highest ceilings I’ve seen in pro baseball,” White Sox catcher Kyle Teel told MLB.com of Montgomery following their 5-2 victory over the Giants Sunday, marking the South Siders’ eighth series win of the 2025 season. “He’s a great teammate.

“Whether it’s going good for him, or he’s struggling, he’s the same guy every single day. I think that’s a really important leadership quality that he has. And that success he’s having is earned. He works his butt off every single day.”

That success has not been consistent across the current campaign for Montgomery, who dropped from MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 overall after dipping to a .149 average at the end of April. He spent some in-season time resetting in Arizona and working with director of hitting Ryan Fuller, which has definitely paid dividends for the 23-year-old, who is now slashing .220/.296/.445 in his second year with the Knights, with 11 homers, 10 doubles and 29 RBIs.

Since returning to Charlotte, Montgomery has produced four multi-homer games. Does this torrid weekend mean a Major League promotion could be coming soon for the highest profile position player among the White Sox rebuild? The trip from Charlotte to Los Angeles, where the White Sox open a six-game road trip Tuesday against the Dodgers, is not a short distance but a journey Montgomery has worked hard to make.

The White Sox return home on July 7 for a seven-game homestand against Toronto and Cleveland, including the 2005 World Series championship 20-year-reunion weekend, beginning with Mark Buehrle’s statue dedication on Friday, July 11. That July 7 date, or somewhere during that homestand, seems a bit more likely for Mongtomery as the earliest possible callup destination if things continue to go close to as well as they have the past four games and he stays healthy.

Prior to this hot streak, Montgomery was battling through a 5-for-35 slump.

“We have seen some signs and then there's a stretch here or there that perhaps he's kind of getting exposed at times. It's about closing the holes, making the adjustments and continuing to stay confident,” said White Sox general manager Chris Getz of Montgomery during a media session earlier this past week. “Just want him to maintain a routine. He understands what he needs to do on a mechanics standpoint.

“This game can be very challenging and you can fall into these traps along the way. He's still growing as a player and a person. It's just a matter of being as consistent as possible on a daily basis with his routines and then the approach at the plate … So really to not only just consistently get him on the field but put together some at-bats on a regular basis before we bring him up there.”