The White Sox announced that top shortstop prospect Colson Montgomery has been optioned to Triple-A Charlotte. Read more at MLB Trade Rumors.

GOODYEAR, Ariz. — White Sox right-hander Drew Thorpe has operated behind the scenes as he works his way back to the rotation after elbow surgery. It shouldn’t be much longer before he is seen, however. Thorpe is scheduled for his first live batting-practice session Tuesday. The plan is for one more live BP, then an appearance in a game.

Colson Montgomery will not break camp as the White Sox starting shortstop or as part of their Opening Day roster this year, after the No. 39 overall prospect, per MLB Pipeline, was optioned to Triple-A Charlotte prior to the club's 7-5 loss to the Padres on Tuesday.

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.

Shortstop Colson Montgomery was scratched from the White Sox starting lineup Thursday because of back spasms. The move was made for precautionary reasons, and he is listed as day-to-day. Montgomery, who turned 23 years old on Thursday,