Regardless of when they decided to eventually let him go, it became clear last season that Pedro Grifol was not going to be the manager of the Chicago White Sox when spring training kicked off in 2025.

Thought to stand a good chance of making the Opening Day roster, the shortstop's major league debut will have to wait.

Chicago White Sox manager Will Venable likes the way shortstop prospect Colson Montgomery carried himself in big-league camp. “He’s got a really good head on his shoulder,” Venable said Tuesday at Camelback Ranch in Glendale,

Like almost everyone else — besides the White Sox front office — Colson Montgomery didn’t expect to be cut two and a half weeks before Opening Day. So it hit the 23-year-old shortstop prospect in the gut Tuesday.