Bio
24-year-old first baseman Torin Montgomery is a first-year Explorer in 2025 after spending the previous three campaigns in the Miami Marlins organization. Montgomery appeared in one Grapefruit League game this year, where he went 0 for 1 with a walk against the Houston Astros. He spent last season in Wisconsin, playing high-A ball for the Beloit Sky Carp in the Midwest League. In 72 games, he slashed .237/.340/.341, walloping six home runs, a professional career-high, and driving in 38 runs. He finished fourth on Beloit in hits with 59 and drew 34 walks, good enough for third on the team.
In 2023, he appeared as a defensive replacement in one spring training game with the Marlins. The Kirkland, Washington native was assigned to play in Single-A for the Jupiter Hammerheads of the Florida State League and put up big numbers, batting at a .341 clip and boasting a .968 OPS. His call-up was well-deserved as he hit safely in 14 of his final 16 games in Jupiter, producing three three-hit games in that stretch. Montgomery clubbed three homers, collected 34 RBI, and led the team in doubles at the time of his promotion to High-A Beloit on July 25th. His numbers declined with the Sky Carp, where he hit .214, homered once, and drove in 12 runs in 35 games.
In his junior season in 2022 at Missouri, Montgomery started 49 of 51 games for the Tigers, where he was one of the best hitters in the SEC. His .365 batting average ranked 7th in the conference, placing ahead of soon-to-be top-5 draft picks, Major Leaguers Wyatt Langford and Dylan Crews. That season, Montgomery also finished 9th in OBP and was 2nd in HBP. Missouri did not qualify for postseason play, so Montgomery started playing that summer with the Wareham Gatemen of the Cape Cod League, where he batted .280 in seven games before going back to the West Coast, where he hit .367 with two homers and 16 RBI for the Healdsburg Prune Packers of the California Collegiate League, who went on to win their 2nd straight league title. His performances in the summer leagues boosted his draft stock so much that Montgomery was selected 412th overall in the 14th round by the Miami Marlins.
After the draft process, Montgomery was assigned to the Marlins affiliate in the Florida Complex League. He made his professional debut against the Cardinals, going 2/4 with 1 RBI, and scoring one run. He appeared in four games and scored six hits before his promotion to Low-A Jupiter, where he debuted on August 2nd. Montgomery started his pro career on an eight-game hitting streak. He finished his first professional season hitting .266 with four home runs, 19 RBI, and eight doubles across two Minor League levels.
Montgomery made a massive decision for his future before the 2021 collegiate season, transferring from the Boise State Broncos of the Mountain West to the Missouri Tigers of the SEC. He chose Missouri over Mississippi State, Arkansas, Tulane, UCONN, and Oregon. He had a productive first season in the Power 5, starting 42 of the Tigers’ 51 games at first base. The highlight of his sophomore season was a 4/5 performance on the road against a then-3rd-ranked and eventual national champion, Mississippi State. Montgomery finished the season with a .279 average, .803 OPS, five big flies, and 30 runs driven in. The Tigers did not make the SEC tournament, so after the final series, he headed to California to play for the Healdsburg Prune Packers of the California Collegiate League, where in 49 games, he erupted with a .335 batting average, smacked nine home runs and drove in 55. Montgomery’s name riddled the statistical leaderboard as he finished 5th in runs, 2nd in hits, 2nd in triples, 2nd in homers, 1st in RBI, 10th in SLG%, and 1st in total bases. Healdsburg finished with the league’s best record, and Montgomery was a major piece in the organization’s first-ever league title.
Torin Montgomery saw his first NCAA action in 2020 when he started 13 of Boise State’s 14 games during the Covid-shortened season. His three long balls led the Broncos, and with a .308 batting average and 9 RBI, he earned All-Mountain West Honors. That summer, he played with the Bismarck Bull Moose of the Northwoods League, one of the only amateur leagues to have a season during the pandemic. Montgomery performed well, hitting .324 in 30 games, with two home runs and 21 runs batted in, which led the team.
Coming out of Lake Washington Senior High School in Kirkland, Washington, Montgomery was ranked the 30th best player and 3rd best first baseman in The Evergreen State by Perfect Game. He was also the 69th-best first baseman in the country in the class of 2019. During high school, he was three-time all-conference, first-team all-state in his final season, and batted over .400 as a senior and reached base well over 40% of the time as a junior and senior. Montgomery was drafted 1041st overall in the 35th round by the Miami Marlins but honored his commitment to Boise State. That summer, he stayed close to home and played for the Wenatchee Apple Sox of the West Coast League, just under 150 miles or a 2.5-hour drive from his home in Kirkland. He showed out in eight games, hitting .344 with two home runs and nine RBI.
Montgomery brings three years and 205 games of experience at the professional level to Sioux City. He plays a defensively sound first base, and with his 6-foot-4, 245-pound frame, he can hit for both power and average.