Repeat After Me: It’s Only Spring Training

Nothing says trouble like sending one of your top prospects to the minors, which the White Sox did yesterday with shortstop Colson Montgomery. Lack of hitting, bad back, one or both. Take your pick. GM Chris Getz is peddling the line that he wants Montgomery “in a very good spot” when the Sox call him up. In a good spot, as in Triple-A? Folks, everyone this side of Ted Williams is going to slump at some point in a season. Hoping Montgomery puts up good numbers for Birmingham only delays seeing how he handles adversity on the big-league level. On top of that, I keep thinking Ron Hansen, a long-ago talented shortstop for the Sox done in by a…yup, bad back. Tell me this isn’t that. You can’t? I thought so. Oh, and ex-Sox Gavin Sheets has five homeruns for the Padres, including two yesterday against…yup, his old team. Good thing we have Bobby Dalbec.