4:13pm: Supervisor Carlos Mendoza advised reporters (together with Mike Puma of the New York Submit) that Montas’s UCL damage is “fairly important.” Mendoza went on to verify that Montas won’t pitch once more in 2025.
2:21pm: The Mets introduced that Frankie Montas has been positioned on the 15-day injured checklist (retroactive to August 22) as a result of a UCL-related damage in his proper elbow. Proper-hander Huascar Brazoban has been known as up from Triple-A to take Montas’ spot on the energetic roster.
It’s the newest setback in what was been a brutal inaugural season for Montas in Queens. The best-hander signed a $34MM assure with the Mets throughout the winter however has produced simply 38 2/3 innings of labor for the staff up to now. A lat pressure suffered on the outset of Spring Coaching left Montas to open the season on the injured checklist and he didn’t make his season debut till June 24. After throwing 5 scoreless innings in his first begin of the 12 months, Montas pitched to a ghastly 7.85 ERA over his subsequent six begins with an 18.2% strikeout fee and a whopping seven house runs allowed. These brutal outcomes led the Mets to maneuver Montas to the bullpen earlier this month, the place he’s surrendered 4 runs (two earned) on 4 walks and 6 hits (together with a house run) whereas placing out simply three.
Altogether, Montas has posted a 6.28 ERA and a 5.31 FIP throughout his time with the Mets with an 18.0% strikeout fee and a 7.9% stroll fee. It’s a deeply disappointing end result, and now it’s an open query when Montas will subsequent be out there to pitch. The Mets have made no bulletins in regards to the right-hander’s timeline for return, nor supplied any indications in regards to the severity of the damage. After all, many followers will marvel about the opportunity of Tommy John surgical procedure, which is usually required to restore a pitcher’s UCL as soon as broken. Such a process (or perhaps a less-invasive inside brace process) would probably value Montas not solely the rest of this 12 months but additionally the complete 2026 season. With that being mentioned, some UCL accidents are attainable to deal with through rehab. That’s a path that Braves hurler Grant Holmes opted to take earlier this month as he offers with a partial UCL tear, although even Holmes’s rehab course of has introduced his 2025 marketing campaign to an abrupt finish.
Whereas the small print of Montas’s prognosis and timeline for return received’t be clear till the Mets make an announcement providing extra info, the membership will likely be with out the right-hander for a minimum of the speedy future. Given the truth that Montas’s efficiency was poor sufficient that he was bumped from the rotation earlier this month, maybe that’s not too large of a blow. Sean Manaea, Kodai Senga, David Peterson, and Clay Holmes stay within the membership’s rotation and have just lately been joined by prime prospect Nolan McLean. Brandon Waddell and Justin Hagenman stay within the minors already on the 40-man roster as potential depth choices behind that group, and well-regarded prospect Brandon Sproat has a 4.24 ERA in 24 begins at Triple-A this 12 months.
Changing Montas on the roster is Brazoban, who started his profession within the majors with Miami again in 2022 however has served as an up-and-down reduction arm for the Mets this 12 months. It’s a job he’s carried out fairly nicely in, with a 3.83 ERA and 4.14 FIP throughout 51 2/3 innings of labor unfold between 3 begins and 41 reduction outings. Brazoban figures to take up Montas’s mantle because the membership’s lengthy reliever going ahead.
