{"id":71124,"date":"2024-04-22T17:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T21:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=71124"},"modified":"2024-04-22T16:43:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:43:26","slug":"frankie-montas-forearm-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/22\/frankie-montas-forearm-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds Opening Day Starter Sidelined with Bruised Forearm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cincinnati Reds weekend sweep over the Los Angeles Angels saw offseason acquisition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/montafr02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-22_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frankie Montas<\/a> out of Sunday&#8217;s game in the first inning. Montas was only 16 pitches into his start when he was struck by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wardta01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-22_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taylor Ward<\/a> line drive below his right elbow and was still able to throw out Ward at first base. However, he left the mound after the team trainer examined his arm. X-rays revealed no fractures, but now Montas will be placed on the 15-day injured list with right forearm contusion. In a corresponding move, the Reds called up right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/legumca01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-22_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Casey Legumina<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If Montas is able to resume throwing later this week, he could have a good chance of returning from the injured list when he&#8217;s first eligible return on May 7.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Reds?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Reds<\/a> today recalled from Triple-A Louisville RHP Casey Legumina and placed on the 15-day injured list RHP Frankie Montas (right forearm contusion). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mte3tyKgdI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Mte3tyKgdI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cincinnati Reds (@Reds) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reds\/status\/1782493364551651695?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Frankie Montas Shelved with Bruised Forearm<\/h2>\n<p>Montas, who signed a<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/12\/30\/frankie-montas-goes-to-reds\/\" target=\"_self\"> one-year, $16 million contract<\/a>, will miss his next start and more as he was set to start for Friday against the Texas Rangers. He has a 4.19 ERA over 19 1\/2 innings for the Reds this season. There was concern that it could have been a serious injury for Montas. He had missed most of the 2023 season due to a right should injury that needed surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t feel my hand. It swelled up right away. It just really hurt at the time,&#8221; Montas said. &#8220;Anytime you get hit in the arm, especially your pitching arm, you&#8217;re a little concerned. A lot of thoughts go through your head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After his depature, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/suterbr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-22_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brent Suter<\/a> picked up Montas with 3 1\/3 innings of strong work for the series sweep. It was Suter&#8217;s second-longest relief outing of his career, allowing four singles and a walk with no runs allowed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obivously your hear is with Frankie taking one right off his favorite arm there, which is a bummer. Suter said after the game Sunday. &#8220;It&#8217;s like, &#8216;You&#8217;ve to got step up. You&#8217;ve got to try to keep the score where it is and go as long as you can&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Injury History in Montas Career<\/h3>\n<p>Montas had two strong outings before his injury and the Reds are hoping he can regain his form from seasons past. How showed flashes of quality by posting a 3.13 ERA over 161 innings for Oakland during the 2018-19 sesasons. Unfortunately, part of his 2019 season was cut short due to an <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2019\/06\/21\/frankie-montas-suspended-80-games\/\" target=\"_self\">80-game PED suspension<\/a>. After finishing sixth in the American League Cy Young Award voting in 2021, the right-hander pitched well in 2022. The Oakland Athletics <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/08\/01\/frankie-montas-traded-to-the-new-york-yankees\/\" target=\"_self\">moved Montas<\/a> to the New York Yankees as part of a six-player trade. Things didn&#8217;t go well for Montas in the Bronx, who struggled to a 6.35 ERA over eight starts and 39 2\/3 innings. Pitching through some shoulder problems saw him spend time on the injured list with inflammation.<\/p>\n<p>Montas underwent shoulder surgery in February and pitched in one game last year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: \u00a9 Kareem Elgazzar\/The Enquirer \/ USA TODAY NETWORK<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cincinnati Reds weekend sweep over the Los Angeles Angels saw offseason acquisition Frankie Montas out of Sunday&#8217;s game in the first inning. Montas was only 16 pitches into his start when he was struck by a Taylor Ward line drive below his right elbow and was still able to throw out Ward at first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":71134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[28,1071],"tags":[2805,28450,4494,156,4200],"class_list":["post-71124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reds","category-mlb","tag-brent-suter","tag-casey-legumina","tag-frankie-montas","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-taylor-ward"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71124","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\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}