Kannapolis manager Chad Pinder on Braden Montgomery, George Wolkow and how the Cannon Ballers lead the minors in stolen bases

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

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🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Chuck Garfien speaks with former Oakland A's infielder Chad Pinder who is now in his first season as manager for Class-A Kannapolis. Chad talks about driving in the game-winning run against the White Sox in the 2020 Wildcard Series to joining the White Sox organization as a first time manager and why. Plus, how the Cannon Ballers are on the attack this year, leading the entire minor leagues in stolen bases. He gives his impressions of top prospects Braden Montgomery, George Wolkow, and Caleb Bonemer plus under-the-radar prospect Javier Mogollon and why he has a lot of faith in the White Sox future.

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0:38.6	All right, so last Saturday, I'm looking at the box scores for the White Sox minor
0:43.0	league affiliates, and I notice that the Canapolis cannonballers in low A stole seven
0:49.8	bases in a game against the Columbia Fireflies, the Royals low-way team.
0:55.0	It's seven bases, stolen in one game.
0:57.0	I looked it up and Canapolis would end up stealing 30 bases in the six-game series.
1:04.0	And for the season, Canapolis has stolen 59 bags the most of any team in all the minor leagues. This team features some of
1:13.9	the White Sox's top prospects. You got Braden Montgomery, George Wolco, Pallorne, Bynomer.
1:19.3	They're all stealing bases. All of them. Seven players have six stolen bases or more, nine
1:24.9	have stolen four or more, and they've only played 16 games.
1:30.2	So what's going on here? And who's running the show there? Well, it turns out it's first-time
1:35.9	manager and first-time coach, former Major Leaguer, former Oakland A, Chad Pinder, who spent
1:43.1	seven years with the A's, just turned 33.
1:46.9	And San Francisco Giants manager, Bob Melvin, who was his manager in Oakland, has always
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