Mets’ Frankie Montas out for season with ‘significant’ UCL injury
Atlanta – A turbulent season for Frankie Montas ended premature. The right -hander has a “significant” collateral ligament in its elbow throwing and will be absent for the rest of the season. Tommy John or a procedure of internal interval is likely, which would also highlight him for 2026.
The dishes placed it on the list of 15 days injured and called the right-hander Huascar Brazobán of Triple-A Syracuse.
“It’s difficult for him, he was quite devastated yesterday when he discovered it,” said manager Carlos Mendoza on Saturday at Truist Park. “Rightly, it was a difficult year for him since training in the spring when he fell. He took a long time in rehabilitation, returned, did not have the results he wanted or we wanted.”
Montas signed a two -year contract for 34 million dollars guaranteed in December, with a player option for 2026 to add depth to rotation, but a LAT strain at the start of the jurisdiction made it out of service until the end of June. Upon his return, he could not give to the dishes what they needed, going 3-2 with an MPM of 6.68 on seven departures before being transferred to the enclosure of the Lights. In nine appearances this season, he posted an MPM of 6.28 with a FIP of 5.31.
Getting to a long rescue role was not ideal for a career starter. A 32 -year -old man in his 10th major league season, Montas still considers himself a starter, but he really wanted to contribute and understood that he did not help the team as a starter. He only made two appearances of the Lights Enclosure this month, his first rescue outings since 2023 with the Yankees. Before that, he had not released the enclosure of the lifts since 2018.
However, it was impatient to adapt to this role.
“In the end, I just like to help,” Montas at Daily News told Montas earlier this week. “If this is where they think I can help the most, I’m going to read the surveys because I’m going to have an opportunity.”
The injury could be the reason why his stuff did not play as he did last year at Cincinnati and Milwaukee. The speed was still there, but its locations were not as effective. When he threw stuff in the area, most often, he was touched.
“Perhaps having an injury like this affected it with its secondary throws,” said Mendoza. “He didn’t feel anything. It looked more like pain in the last times.”
Montas complained of pain in her lower biceps after her last departure on August 3. He warmed up in the enclosure of the lifts in Washington on Thursday but the food did not use it. Friday in Atlanta, he complained of pain in the same place, and he stayed after playing Catch. It was then that the dishes sent him for imaging.
Initially, there was little concern due to the location of the injury, so the results were somewhat surprising. Montas will ask for more opinions to confirm a diagnosis and determine the best line of driving. The player’s option gives it security, but for the dishes, it only makes the contract worsen.
Montas was a kind of rehabilitation project, just like Sean Manaea and Luis Severino were last season, and Clay Holmes and Griffin Canning were this season. The president of baseball operations, David Stearns, fulfilled the rotation in this way two consecutive winters, finding launchers undervalued on the market and hoping to operate these undervalued assets.
Montas has already undergone shoulder surgery with the Yankees, limiting it to a single appearance in 2023.
Despite the swollen era, Montas said he had even more to give this season and was grateful that the dishes believe in him enough to let him present in any way whatsoever.
“It means a lot – I mean it means they believe in my talent,” said Montas. “They believe in the guy they have signed. I do not see things like that like a failure, I see it as a way to go out and improve myself, to work on everything I have to work and to prove that to the guys who are here.
“I still have a lot of fight on me.”
Stay in turn
It is not planned to insert a sixth starter for the current section of 16 games, but Mendoza warned that these plans are fluid. The right -hander Tylor Megill (elbow sprain) will make at least the beginning of rehabilitation before the dishes activate it. This maintains the current regular rest at the next turn through rotation.
Megill launched 5.0 rounds for Triple-A Syracuse on Friday evening, abandoning five strokes without points, walking two and withdrawing four. He launched 65 throws.
Coach
Jeff McNeil (painful right shoulder) returned to the programming on Saturday, hitting fifth and playing the second goal against the Braves of Atlanta. The dishes are always trying to plan days off so that it relieves the pain of the shoulder.
The Nimmo Brandon Brandon (neck pain) has remained for the second consecutive match, but it tends in the right direction, capable of running and hitting in the cages. The receiver Luis Torrens (bruised hand) is always painful, but capable of leaving the bench if necessary.
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