{"id":70890,"date":"2024-04-19T21:15:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T01:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=70890"},"modified":"2024-04-19T21:15:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T01:15:16","slug":"jordan-montogmery-arizona-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/19\/jordan-montogmery-arizona-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"October Hero Set to Make His Arizona Debut Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lefty starter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=montgjo01,montgo001jor&amp;search=Jordan+Montgomery&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan Montgomery<\/a> is set to make his Arizona Diamondbacks debut Friday night. Last year&#8217;s October hero with the Texas Rangers signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/26\/jordan-montgomery-signs-diamondbacks\/\" target=\"_self\">one-year, $25 million deal<\/a> with the DBacks toward the end of spring training.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cHe gets some really good hitters to take some really ugly swings.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markdero7?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@markdero7<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Plesac19?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Plesac19<\/a> take a look at Jordan Montgomery ahead of his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dbacks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Dbacks<\/a> debut tonight! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YMRGFq3Zz1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/YMRGFq3Zz1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB Network (@MLBNetwork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLBNetwork\/status\/1781402385576808459?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Jordan Montgomery Making Arizona Debut Friday<\/h2>\n<p>Montgomery&#8217;s free agency lasted longer than anyone expected, largely thanks to his agent Scott Boras. He was one of several players represented by Boras who remained unsigned well into March. But on March 26, Arizona came calling. After almost a month of preparation, Montgomery will begin his 2024 campaign when he starts against the San Francisco Giants. He will be challenged right off the bat, as he goes up against defending NL Cy Young winner and fellow Boras client <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/snellbl01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blake Snell<\/a>. Snell had his own difficulty signing in free agency, not joining the Giants until late March. On the bright side for Monty, Snell is off to a rough start. In two starts, the southpaw is 0-2 with a 12.86 ERA. He has given up 10 runs on nine hits across seven total innings.<\/p>\n<p>After helping the Texas Rangers to their first World Series title last season, Monty will pitch for the team they defeated in the Fall Classic. The Diamondbacks made improvements to an already-loaded roster in the offseason, but are treading water so far with a 9-11 start. However, Montgomery will add a steady arm to their rotation. With each successive stop he&#8217;s made in his career thus far, his reputation has only improved.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Dbacks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Dbacks<\/a> roster moves. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mXRYi6E64e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/mXRYi6E64e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arizona Diamondbacks (@Dbacks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dbacks\/status\/1781437177953702263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To accommodate Montgomery on the roster, Arizona made a few roster moves on Friday. They placed pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/n\/nelsory01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryne Nelson<\/a> on the 15-day IL with a right elbow contusion. Utility infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/peterja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jace Peterson<\/a>, on last year&#8217;s World Series roster, was designated for assignment. Along with Montgomery, outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/smithpa04.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pavin Smith<\/a> is being recalled from Triple-A Reno.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Andrew Dieb-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lefty starter Jordan Montgomery is set to make his Arizona Diamondbacks debut Friday night. Last year&#8217;s October hero with the Texas Rangers signed a one-year, $25 million deal with the DBacks toward the end of spring training. \u201cHe gets some really good hitters to take some really ugly swings.\u201d@markdero7 and @Plesac19 take a look at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3931,"featured_media":70893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1071,35],"tags":[1122,1183,1166,1321,5544,259],"class_list":["post-70890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diamondbacks","category-mlb","category-news","tag-blake-snell","tag-jace-peterson","tag-jordan-montgomery","tag-pavin-smith","tag-ryne-nelson","tag-texas-rangers"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3931"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}