Chicago White Sox — at the bottom of the AL hitting stats — are searching for offensive consistency

“Now it’s left-on-left matchups where they are not going to give you a fastball. Are you able to tunnel the breaking ball in the spot you want? So it’s not just one pitch we are monitoring. We are monitoring all of them. To his credit, he’s going to be able to make adjustments and understand how to get to them.”

Shortstop Colson Montgomery is going through his first full season in the majors after making his debut last July. He came into Friday with a .172/.274/.359 slash line with three home runs and nine RBIs.

“Really proud of Colson — it could be a situation where it speeds up and you kind of question things, but he’s doing a really good job of understanding that it’s April 16 and there’s a lot more baseball to be played,” Fuller said.

“Like all these guys, they’re struggling right now. We’re going to get it right, we’re going to make adjustments. He’s confident in the work we’re going to put in and it’s going to start to show up.”

Luisangel Acuña is among those adapting to a new situation after being acquired as part of an offseason trade that sent Luis Robert Jr. to the New York Mets. Acuña is hitting .170 with two RBIs in 16 games while getting a heavy dose of center field for the first time in his big-league career.

“New organization, he wants to impress, he knows he was part of a trade and there’s a lot that goes in the personal side, too,” Fuller said. “Usually for all these guys, the more we try, the harder it gets, right?

“He’s been unlucky, he’s hitting the ball hard, it’s on the ground where they’re able to make those plays. It’s ‘how do I get back to hitting more line drives, getting the ball off the ground a little more?'”

Fuller added, “He is grinding every day to make sure he gets it right and it’s going to show up.”

Across the board, several Sox players are slumping. The team ranks last in the American League in many offensive categories, including hits (118), runs (60) and on-base percentage (.286).

“These guys are human,” Fuller said. “And you look at the current roster right now, 13 guys as a part of the offense, 10 have two or less years of service time. They’re inexperienced. They’re going through struggle, a lot of these guys, for the first time at the big-league level. That is totally normal. All these guys are going to go through it. What we’ve talked about is, you look at any team over the course of 162, there’s going to be 20 or 30 games that everyone kind of goes cold at once and it’s a tough spell.

“We can reframe this as we’re getting ours out of the way in April, that’s going to set us up for really good lessons when we get into June, July, August, when it’s hotter, those dog days of summer. Reminding these guys that this could be a benefit to us down the road. It might not feel like it right now, but trusting the values, the principles, that we have in place.”