Colson Montgomery

Montgomery is a hold — league-average skill, but K% is climbing.

His expected wOBA sits at .324, essentially league average, and he has enough plate appearances for that number to be reliable. His actual wOBA is .331, tracking the skill. The contact quality is decent — exit velocity, hard-hit rate, and barrel rate are all above league — so there is some bat-to-ball ability. The problem that keeps him from being a buy is the strikeout rate. He whiffs 31.8% of the time, nearly 10 points above league, and that number has been climbing across the sample. His swinging-strike rate is 19.4% and chase rate is 32.5%, both well above league, confirming the contact issues are real and persistent. The swinging-strike rate and chase rate are both well above league, confirming the whiff problem is structural. He walks enough to stay afloat, but the K-rate caps his ceiling and keeps the floor lower than the expected stats would suggest. There is nothing unstable driving his line up or down. If you own him, he is what the numbers say. If you don't, there is no edge. Hold. 7 HR, 22 R, 28 RBI, 1 SB, .197 AVG — this deep-league-only hold is a rotational drop for standard formats.