{"id":94606,"date":"2025-02-17T14:19:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T19:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=94606"},"modified":"2025-02-17T14:19:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T19:19:01","slug":"frankie-montas-lat-strain-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/02\/17\/frankie-montas-lat-strain-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankie Montas Out 6-8 Weeks With A Lat Strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest question for the New York Mets heading into the spring training and the 2025 season was their starting pitching rotation. The team lost Luis Severino to free agency, and <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/q\/quintjo01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jose Quintana<\/a>\u00a0remains unsigned. To try and replace those names, the team signed <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/holmecl01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clay Holmes<\/a>\u00a0and <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/montafr02.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frankie Montas<\/a>\u00a0in the hopes that they would give them innings at the back end of the rotation. Unfortunately, Montas has suffered a high-grade lat strain during spring training and will be out for 6-8 weeks. Taking him out for at least the first month or two of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\r\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Frankie Montas has not been throwing and will apparently remain shut down for a significant stretch. More info coming soon.<\/p>\r\n\u2014 Mike Puma (@NYPost_Mets) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYPost_Mets\/status\/1891543400064692234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 17, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\r\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">News: Mets starter Frankie Montas has a high-grade lat strain. He&#8217;s going to be shut down 6-8 weeks.<\/p>\r\n\u2014 Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnthonyDiComo\/status\/1891560270125760806?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 17, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\r\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Following that initial shutdown period, Montas is going to need the equivalent of a full spring training buildup. That means a best-case scenario would have him debuting in mid-May. Realistically, it could be more like June.<\/p>\r\n\u2014 Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnthonyDiComo\/status\/1891561311412044013?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 17, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\r\n<p>For a team that already had questions on their pitching rotation, this is a big loss for the Mets. New York was counting on Montas to give them innings and now will have to rely on their depth early into camp. Pitchers such as <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/blackpa01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Blackburn<\/a>, <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cannigr01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Griffin Canning<\/a>, and <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/megilty01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tylor Megill <\/a>will have to step up and earn Montas&#8217; spot in the rotation. There&#8217;s also the possibility of re-signing the aforementioned Quintana. Quintana pitched the last two seasons in Queens and did well. He especially was solid down the stretch and into the postseason in 2024. New York could look to re-sign him now.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Last year, Montas pitched to a 7-11 record and a 4.84 ERA with the Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Brewers, respectively. Montas is still coming off shoulder surgery, which caused him to miss the majority of the 2023 season.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Main Photo Credits: Sam Navarro-Imagn Images<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest question for the New York Mets heading into the spring training and the 2025 season was their starting pitching rotation. The team lost Luis Severino to free agency, and Jose Quintana\u00a0remains unsigned. To try and replace those names, the team signed Clay Holmes\u00a0and Frankie Montas\u00a0in the hopes that they would give them innings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4682,"featured_media":95838,"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":[22,1],"tags":[4494],"class_list":["post-94606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mets","category-uncategorized","tag-frankie-montas"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94606","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\/4682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95841,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94606\/revisions\/95841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}