4:13pm: Manager Carlos Mendoza told reporters (including Mike Puma of the New York Post) that Montas’s UCL injury is “pretty significant.” Mendoza went on to confirm that Montas will not pitch again in 2025.
2:21pm: The Mets announced that Frankie Montas has been placed on the 15-day injured list (retroactive to August 22) due to a UCL-related injury in his right elbow. Right-hander Huascar Brazoban has been called up from Triple-A to take Montas’ spot on the active roster.
It’s the latest setback in what was been a brutal inaugural season for Montas in Queens. The right-hander signed a $34MM guarantee with the Mets during the winter but has produced just 38 2/3 innings of work for the team so far. A lat strain suffered at the outset of Spring Training left Montas to open the season on the injured list and he did not make his season debut until June 24. After throwing five scoreless innings in his first start of the year, Montas pitched to a ghastly 7.85 ERA over his next six starts with an 18.2% strikeout rate and a whopping seven home runs allowed. Those brutal results led the Mets to move Montas to the bullpen earlier this month, where he’s surrendered four runs (two earned) on four walks and six hits (including a home run) while striking out just three.
Altogether, Montas has posted a 6.28 ERA and a 5.31 FIP during his time with the Mets with an 18.0% strikeout rate and a 7.9% walk rate. It’s a deeply disappointing outcome, and now it’s an open question when Montas will next be available to pitch. The Mets have made no announcements about the right-hander’s timeline for return, nor offered any indications about the severity of the injury. Of course, many fans will wonder about the possibility of Tommy John surgery, which is often required to repair a pitcher’s UCL once damaged. Such a procedure (or even a less-invasive internal brace procedure) would likely cost Montas not only the remainder of this year but also the entire 2026 season. With that being said, some UCL injuries are possible to address via rehab. That’s a path that Braves hurler Grant Holmes opted to take earlier this month as he deals with a partial UCL tear, though even Holmes’s rehab process has brought his 2025 campaign to an abrupt end.
While the details of Montas’s prognosis and timeline for return won’t be clear until the Mets make an announcement offering more information, the club will be without the right-hander for at least the immediate future. Given the fact that Montas’s performance was poor enough that he was bumped from the rotation earlier this month, perhaps that’s not too massive of a blow. Sean Manaea, Kodai Senga, David Peterson, and Clay Holmes remain in the club’s rotation and have recently been joined by top prospect Nolan McLean. Brandon Waddell and Justin Hagenman remain in the minors already on the 40-man roster as potential depth options behind that group, and well-regarded prospect Brandon Sproat has a 4.24 ERA in 24 starts at Triple-A this year.
Replacing Montas on the roster is Brazoban, who began his career in the majors with Miami back in 2022 but has served as an up-and-down relief arm for the Mets this year. It’s a role he’s performed quite well in, with a 3.83 ERA and 4.14 FIP across 51 2/3 innings of work spread between 3 starts and 41 relief outings. Brazoban figures to take up Montas’s mantle as the club’s long reliever going forward.
Legendary signing by Stearns right here.
I just don’t get it. Out of all the pitchers he could’ve signed, he signs Montas.
He had no problem trading Scherzer and Verlander.
Stearns didn’t make those trades…
True, but somebody did and someone should take responsibility for it.
How ironic, maybe start by taking responsibility yourself for your flat out wrong comment
Deny the Trolls: Maybe take some responsibility and change your handle to something like King of the Trolls. 🤣
Real funny, but if I’m talking about sports and you’re just disagreeing, that’s not trolling. It’s just you not liking my opinion. And trust me, your name is pretty well known around here for disagreeing from what I have seen.
Fine, maybe I’m wrong, but the premise isn’t. They traded away their starters and then needed pitching when it was time to compete, in a matter of two years. Buffoon organization with buffoon moves.
Deny: Well excuse me if I don’t always agree with other people’s opinions.
Freedom of thought and expression is a cherished American value, as much as Mr. Trump would like to suppress any thought and expression he doesn’t like.
You don’t have to agree, that’s fine. But maybe be a bit more respectful about it
So, you’re defending the Montas signing then?
But you are wrong. Both on the facts, and on the premise. The Scherzer and Verlander contracts with the Mets expired after last season, so they would not have been here anyway. Both pitchers struggled last year and did not contribute much to their teams.
The Mets did better last year than the teams that acquired those pitchers, both in the regular season, and in the playoffs. And those pitchers would not have been here now, anyway. So your point and premise are, at best, moot.
Deny: I’m respectful enough.
But I’m not… whether they are on the Mets or not, your man signed Montas. That’s the reality. He signed Montas to replace their production. Whether it’s a year or two later, that’s not how you get competitive pitching back. You can’t build a team with just Soto
The premise is that Montas is not the answer. If Verlander and or Scherzer (I say trade one not both) lived out that contract and pitched to ace level, at least it was a deal made for good pitching. The Mets’ pitching staff is flawed this year and Montas is a big reason why. He never should have signed him to be in that rotation with the money he has.
You’re still defending the Montas deal? Whether Verlander is here or not, you replace good pitching with good pitching, not with mop ups.
Man, Deny got eaten up and then just kept digging the hole.
Maybe, time will tell but all I see you do is criticize others for your own enjoyment.
That’s not my premise. My premise is that they no longer have pitchers like those stars and signed Montas instead
I did take responsibility. I admitted I was wrong about the trade but the premise still stands that the best the Mets can do is sign Montas, which was a bad deal from the start
Verlander had a 3 something ERA in 90 innings for the Mets. Scherzer didn’t pitch well for the Mets but is pitching decent now. Verlander might be starting to age, as is Scherze, but I would take either any day over Montas, Maenea, and Severino. I would’ve taken the chance to sign them to better money deals than waste a ton of cash on Soto.
But as I said, I would’ve kept one of them and traded the other. Trading both and now being short on pitching is not good. They could’ve been extended too.
I want the Mets to succeed, I just do not like how they have been managed.
There’s nothing wrong about constant turnover because the same organization keeps making dumb deals no matter who puts the big boy pants on
Stearns was hired on October 1, 2023. Max Scherzer was traded on July 30, 2023 and Justin Verlander was traded on August 1, 2023. Stearns was still with Milwaukee when both were moved. Those transactions were initiated by Eppler (or perhaps even Cohen).
Cohen has been with the team since then. That’s who i meant, but let’s see the forest for the trees.
Mets traded away pitching, now they need it. They should’ve kept one of their aces… I questioned the move from the start.
Now they sign Soto and have no pitching. It’s a terrible contract too. Way overpay. I know Cohen has deep pockets but still… Montas is the best they got? Buffoon moves
@ Deny: those pitchers would not be here now, anyway. Their contracts expired last year. Both have spent significant time injured and/or underperforming since then.
Neither of them pitched like an ace for the Mets, nor for anyone else since then. So you’re speaking to a concept, not a reality, that does not apply here.
The reality was they were really good when they were traded.
Another reality is that the Mets’ attempt at replacing them is signing Montas. That’s a worse reality
Well, no, Montas wasn’t the best they got, whether you’re talking in general or just this offseason.
Holmes has adapted quite well as a starting pitcher and has performed above average and Canning was rolling before injury. And although he hasn’t faired as well this season, Manaea was fantastic last year with the Mets and has been better than Montas this season, too.
I really think you all are trolling me because so many people are speaking up about the Mets but you only target me. Maybe I was wrong about Verlander and Scherzer being traded but the point still stands that they didn’t get good pitching this year… everyone is saying it, yet you target me and say I’m wrong.
Like I said months ago, your obsession in this matter and to call me out is ridiculous. I really think you are someone who holds a grudge against me…
I’m so sick of it that I’m keeping the username because some Mets fans (not all) want to latch on like leeches
Most people replying to you aren’t Mets fans, and surely you know that if you spend as much time here as you claim. I think people were just off put by your multiple incorrect claims.
The Mets starting staff has top 10 stats and metrics to back them up. The bullpen is really the issue.
As others noted, that was a different GM. That said, I’m not convinced Stearns’ low-cost approach to pitching will work in NY. He needs to evolve on that front.
Well he does have four young starters that should be on the roster next year in McLean, Tong, Scott and Sproat. This year he doesn’t need to bring in anyone as a starter.
Given the attrition rate with young pitchers (and old ones, too, but probably especially the young ones), in terms of both health and effectiveness, if they get one and a half solid years out of those four next season, the Mets will be doing great for themselves.
Two TOS surgeries and a UCL in one day that’s a bad day in baseball history for Pitchers. That might be some kind of record even in these times.
Whether or not it’s a different GM, I blame Cohen and this approach to throw money at any player and hope it sticks without a grain of intelligence in the signing.
Low cost? Did you see how much he spent on Soto? He has the money, he should’ve spent ok good pitching. He created his own problem and now the Mets will probably get in but just barely.
Mets are 7th in ERA from SP. Stearns has done fine so far.
@lordd99 – Stearns was really good in Milwaukee; surprisingly so to me. My strong preference is for a baseball guy in charge that manages to value and utilize the growth in analytics, rather than the saberdude that is missing the baseball / scouting background.
But I agree – when moving to the Mets, he needed to adjust his philosophy to take into account that they can afford to take bigger swings and weather the misses, which he could not do in Milwaukee. Over the winter, I thought that he really failed with the Hot Stove pitching approach…and as a Phils fan I hope that he continues to shop in the Dollar General pitching aisle.
It was a problem he couldn’t trade they were already traded
But replacing them with Montas is the problem.
You’re wrong again. Across the board and in multiple ways. First of all, Scherzer and Verlander were not really good when they were traded. Thats part of the reason they were traded.
Second, Stearns did not replace them with Montas. He replaced them with Severino and Manaea. And that actually worked out well. Those two pitched better than Verlander and Scherzer last year and the Mets outperformed the teams that acquired Scherzer and Verlander.
Montas has been hurt for all of seven games. So to say that he is what is wrong with the Mets and the rotation is baseless.
We get it. The Montas deal was a bad one. But its not responsible for all of the world’s woes, let alone the Mets’. Montas did not cause inflation. Or global warming. Or COVID. He’s not the reason you lose one sock in the dryer, or get bad phone reception in tunnels and elevators. He’s also not the reason the Mets struggle to score runs, Vientos regressed, and Taylor forgot how to hit, or the rest of the rotation struggles to get past 5 innings.
Honestly, I never commented on the offense. I actually like the Mets offense but their pitching is bad this year. You can say I am wrong however mamy times you wamt to, but I look at career stats and Mets traded two of the best pitchers based on career stats. Verlander has been known to bounce back after a couple rough years in the past. I would’ve assumed they would’ve bounce back, and whether I was wrong or not, I would’ve made the gamble and still kept one of them because they are the best in the game and Mets now lavk the pitching.
And we all know Mets signed Verlander and Scherzer to compete, so if they were busts in your eyes, you’ve just proven the point that Mets use band aids from one bad acquisition to the next. They have little to no structure to their game plan other than throwing money at Juan Soto. It hasn’t gotten them anywhere, and until they get better pitchers (outside of Senga), I am sad to say they won’t go far. I am not only Mets bashing, because I feel the Padres have done the same thing, only they have the pitching the Mets don’t.
I don’t care whether you think I am right or wrong. The Mets are laughable at how they have managed the team the last three years and have little to no direction other than signing the big Juan Soto, which was a terrible deal and an overpay for a guy who’ll be the most expensive DH in a few years. The worst part about it is that the Yankees didn’t sign him.
When the Mets want to win, they’ll actually put together a game plan besides throwing money at a big star and overlooking their pitching woes. Montas was a disaster. Holmes, I am sure is good but has no experience as a starter. Manea isn’t that good. They could’ve done MUCH better.
Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if they shop Soto in five years when they realize the deal was bad.
Manea worked out well? He has an ERA over 5.00 and is a career 4.00 pitcher. That is a 3 or 4 starter at best. Mets have Senga and maybe Peterson, that’s it. Severino WAS a good pitcher.
But Verlander and Scherzer combined have SEVERAL great pitching years and both have bounced back after rough years.
Call me wrong all you want, but you don’t put together a winning rotation in the hands of Sean Manea.
Mets completely overlooked pitching this year and I’ve been the one to say it since day 1 and take all the riddance from homer Mets fans… their true colors are showing when they barely make a wild card spot.
Maybe it’s not Verlander or Scherzer… fine. But they have to do better than Manea and Montas, especially when they have more money than virtually any other team. That’s the whole point of my argument.
@Deny
you are completely wrong on this. If anything Manea and Holmes replaced Verlander and Scherzer they were both the top pitchers. The person Montas replaced was your number 5 aka Carrasco unless you are foolish enough to believe Montas is an ace. As bad as Montas has been that is sadly still an upgrade over cookie.
If you would have kept Verlander and Scherzer the mets would have been all in again and probably would have gone “higher end” in free agency with Snell and Montgomery and maybe Stroman being the only realistic options as Nola was not leaving the phillies, Ohtani was going west coast, kershaw wasnt leaving the dodgers, woodruff wasnt going to pitch, gray i have a feeling was done with ny. So of those three snell did well but barely 100 innings, montgomery … yeah, stroman basically just ate innings and didnt make a playoff appearance. You also would not have signed the bargain basement guys that turned out pretty good last season in Manea and Severino. Tthey wanted a chance at a starting spot which they would not have had with the mets having the two above, senga peterson quintana and houser already there.
If everything played out the same you probably werent even 500 have a worse farm. Soto probably wouldnt have any interest in the mets or you would have had to pay significantly more to sign him, no QO draft picks for picks (got one from Sevy i think) while potentially still carrying Montgomery’s salary on the books as i think he was the guy they would have gotten in this scenario.
Pretty sure you’re the one I argued with earlier tbzt tried to convince me the Mets were better than the Dodgers on day 1, and heavily implied they were the best, yet wouldn’t confess they were the best team.
I could be way off, but you sound just like him and all you promoted was how good the Mets were while overlooking their faults. Maybe it wasn’t you, but it sure sounds like it. There are 29 other teams on the field, buddy.
And I said Mets got lucky last year and I still stand by that. Their offense may get them a wild card. It probably will, but they aren’t going far.
And Manea and Severino may have had career years but Manea is a career 4.00 era pitcher and Severino is battling to find his former self. At least Verlandrr and Scherzer have Cy Young years on their resumes and have bounced back from difficulties. They are aging, but there’s no question I would rather have them then Sean Manea.
@Roll
I literally have no idea what direction you are trying to drivel your argument. Literally all over the place… the reality is likely that the Mets didn’t have the prospects because they’ve been mismanaged for the last four to five years… either way, they didn’t get enough pitching this offseason.
If they really wanted the pitching, they could have gotten it. There were better options than Montas and Maenea. It just took a good GM to make it happen but Stearns or whoever was in charge didn’t really make the best of finding the best pitching. Soto was the prize. I was hoping he went to the Yankees…
Not my problem.
Now, if the big boy Soto can pitch, problem solved.
small words for you Deny
Year 1 (under 500)
1 /2 Verlander Scherzer
3 Senga
4 Quintana
5 Cookie
Year 2 (under 500)
1 /2 Verlander Scherzer
3 Montgomery (most likely)
4 Senga
5 Peterson/Quintana/Houser
Year 3 (under 500)
1 Senga
2 Montgomery (most likely)
3 Manea / Holmes / maybe overpay for fried if he comes
4 Peterson
5 Montas / Megill / Canning / Blackburn
going forward, lesser farm, lesser lineup with no soto, no QO picks, 3/5 of your rotation pitching less than half a season.
“the reality is likely that the Mets didn’t have the prospects because they’ve been mismanaged for the last four to five years… either way, they didn’t get enough pitching this offseason”
which is why they paid more for free agents and didnt empty the mediocre farm they had at the time for trades. The one top end prospect they traded under Cohen that i can recall is PCA who was hurt at the time and they needed a temporary replacement for lindor while they were pushing for the playoffs. I guess you can say Holderman too but i dont think he was top end and even then he was older and didnt amount to much outside of one year. The mismanagement was done by the wilpons not cohen and took time to bring it back up. There is potentially good talent waiting in the wings especially pitching.
Small words? I don’t care who they had pitching years ago, they didn’t sign the guys to make them better this year… how is that hard to understand? You can disagree with me, fine, but that’s my point. All the extra stuff you say doesn’t matter. They need better pitching, period
True Montas was a bust, but what were Verlander and Scherzer doing when the Mets got rid of them? Not much, Scherzer got a ring but he hurt the Rangers every time he pitched in the postseason and Verlander I’m pretty sure was left off the postseason roster entirely. I don’t think it’s the best comparison if you’re trying to knock Stearns. Just my opinion.
The biggest knock is not signing enough good pitching this past year
Troll, what are you talking about? 1st off, Eppler traded
Verlander and Scherzer. Stearns signed Montas to a one year deal. That is exactly what you want to do in signing back of the rotation starters. Montas is hurt and won’t be a Met anymore. For a huge budget team like the Mets it’s no harm, no foul. Next. .
Well at least he traded for Helsley.
Frankie replaced, that can only help the Mets
Stearns really screwed the pooch on this one. I think 70% of MLBTR denizens even knew not to touch this guy with a ten foot pole. It makes you wonder about other aspects of his decision making. If the Mets don’t make the playoffs it will leave a stain on Stearns immaculate reputation.
One of the dumbest signings I’ve ever seen and of course now he’ll opt into next season at $17m and the Mets will have wasted $34m on less than 10 starts all of which were awful.
He’s allowed a miss. It’s not a ton of cash in baseball terms.
He also signed Manea and Severino last season. And Canning this season. But somehow fans think anything below a 100% success rate is abject failure. I WANT a GM who has confidence in his staff to develop putching at the MLB level.
Well, he’s probably done for the year.
He’s probably done as a met
Just move on.
And next. That’s his whole contract
Not going to be upset on this move. Mets would be 10 games up if he was never signed.
he hasn’t even been in ten games this season
That’s how bad he is.
haha
lmaoooo
Dang that made me laugh. So good, so bad.
Crybaby Mets fans get on me for anything I say but you said this statement, which could not be more true, and they’re not here… yet they wanna call me wrong
Maybe because you’re weird? And because most of the posters here choose to ignore posts from crayon-eating 12 year olds?
Making assumptions I see? You don”t even know me
montas will earn a total of $36mil for what could turn out to be just 38 innings of a 6.28 era
sweet baby jesus
Hopefully there’s some insurance on that but he’s def opting in on that player option
And it’s all possible with Cohen’s cash.
Just like with the Gugenheim slush fund over in LA, just because owners have giant windfalls of cash to throw around, it doesn’t mean PBO’s are smart in allocating it. Throw it around willy nilly why don’t ya.
@son
Stearns was the best GM in 2024. Took a buncha losers to within 2 gms of a pennant. Had to trust his decisions as crazy as they sounded during this past offseason. So many questionable signings/trades or lack of. But somehow mets still in playoff hunt
As far as $ goes, the tm is so profitable cohen probly doesnt care that much about $30mil
Dodgers are working within their income stream. They aren’t pulling from the ownership group.
They do have the advantage of having an excellent TV deal, the Ohtani generated income, sellout crowds, and so on.
He Ellsbury’d the Mets on a smaller scale.
Very Jew Lowrieesque
I think you meant Jed but it came across a lot worse.
@chandlerbing,
🇺🇸America truly is the land of opportunity!🇺🇸
Money isn’t real
This one has to sting, signing Montas over Severino, I was higher on Montas too this off season in that I thought Severino was the bigger injury risk.
Sevvy isn’t happy where he is, either.
He really did bring that one on himself in the end.
Mets said Sevvy was an enlightenment this year…
Quintana was the one they should have signed.
Yes, this
Or the $4.5m they could’ve spent to resign Quintana, who wanted to be in NY and who had just had a good year for you, unlike Montas who was terrible the year before. Stearns is an idiot.
Would you rather see Quintana over Tong, Sproat or Magil?
Quintana is 10-4, 3.32 in 20 GS, So yeah, he probably would have helped the Mets this season, particularly in that stretch where they could barely get a starter to 4 IP.
Tong and Sproat would not have been impacted by Quintana, since neither of them pitch in MLB (yet). Megill is serviceable.
It’s easy to say “they should have just signed Quintana” but the reason he signed for $4.5M is because he didn’t have much of a market. Apparently a lot of teams thought he was done, like the Mets did. You don’t get them all right.
The Montas deal was questionable from the get go, for sure. Stearns gambled and busted. Again though, it happens. Find me a GM who doesn’t make mistakes pretty much every year.
I see this a lot. Sevi is having a bad season and we have a ton of low paid young starters ready to take over. Minaya will probably go to the pen (or get his elbow cleaned out), Holmes will go to the pen and two of Sproat, Tong or Magil will be up here. All the options are better than Sevi or Quintana.
Someone previously said I relied on hindsight for saying this guy was terrible.
Well, they’re wrong. I said he was a bad signing the day they made it and it still is.
I didn’t even like the Soto signing either and was hoping the Yankees would burn through their whole payroll to land him.
Out of all the pitchers the Mets could’ve signed, they went after Montas?
Yes, we know you did. As did half the people here.
Just needed to clear my name from any potential homer Mets fans. They thrive in this ecosystem.
You are the ecosystem.
You have just dug your hole deeper and deeper with each post. You are still wrong. Across the board.
You say I’m wrong but you haven’t said why, especially because my opinion cannot be wrong. You just disagree. So own up to disagreeing with me, fine, but my belief can’t be wrong. You don’t win arguments by shouting “wrong.” That’s Elememtary school stuff right there
I said from day one. If I happen to be “wrong,” I will admit it but pitching has been the Mets’ achilles heel. That’s pretty obvious and if you disagree, I feel they’re pitching isn’t good enough.
You Mets fans are relentless and think your team is number one regardless. Take it or leave it. That’s what I think and my words are no less or more than yours
You even admitted Montas was a bad signing, or maybe your crony did, so you want to walk back that statement and not say it’s wrong?
Go ahead, tell us how great Montas was…
So you’re not going to reply to the hundreds of posts on here that are saying the same thing; you’re just going to respond to me?
PED use paid big time for this guy. Only time he was relevant and teams keep paying him 8 figures to be bad and/or hurt.
So, I wonder how many doctors they had to go to before they found the injury? Not that I’m complaining. It’s the best place from him to be for the team.
I think most Mets fans saw it as a bad signing
Yet they shout at me “wrong, wrong” when I point it out as a bad signing. These Mets fans have to grow up
Idk if this is the cause of his struggles but certainly has proven that the signing was a failure. With that said, idk if anyone on that “shelf” of pitchers in FA would have been an obvious upgrade. Maybe resigning Severino? Who knows. Could be an addition by subtraction at this point.
Bring up one of the other kids. Why not?
Megill will be back soon with Sproat waiting right behind him.
TJ surgery part deaux…
Overpaid and should have been a one year deal or team option. Now they are stuck with him. Then someone will get him in 2027 for nothing and he’ll have a career year. This is the way of the lolmet.
Washington @Nationals on twitter after taking 2 of 3 from New York in midweek …
“the most important part of lolmets is the two L’s.”
Now THAT has to sting!
They need another starter this week since Senga can’t pitch on 4 days rest. My suggestion is to call up Sproat to pitch tomorrow and push Peterson back a day to start the Phillies series, and then everyone else gets an extra day of rest. They can open up a 40 man spot for Sproat by putting Montas on the 60 day IL, and they can option Brazoban or Garrett down to Syracuse. Then come September 1 they can bring Megill up for long relief.
Except if you bring Megill up on 9/1 he’s not eligible for the postseason.
Very ridiculously wrong, Chucky. That Sept 1 rule only applies to players who have not been on the major league roster at all this year. Megill was on the rsoter. He is on the IL, and is in the minors on a rehab assignment. He will be eligible for the playoffs no matter when they bring him back up.
With that in mind, they had better get Sproat and Tong on the 40 man.
While the rule states you have to be on the 40 man before September 1, you really only need to be in the organization before that date.
All a team has to do is petition the league to allow a player to take the spot of someone on the 60 day that would have been post season eligible if healthy.
This is how Josh Donaldson made the Brewers post season roster in 23 despite being added to the 40 man after Sept. 1
Who would trust him to pitch anyway?
Why wouldn’t they bring up Sproat and move Holmes to the pen ?
Because Tong is a lot better then him.
I’d rather take my chances with Sproat than Megill in the PS, and then you can use Holmes in relief in the PS.
Right. Because you already know for a fact that Sproat will be successful the instant he gets called up. And he will maintain that success, even after the league has had six weeks to watch him and figure him out.
I don’t know that he will be successful, he may not be. But we won’t know until he gets on the mound. And we know what we’ve got with Megill – inconsistency. He’s got great stuff, and he just hasn’t been able to put it together. Every time he comes back from AAA I hope that he can. Looks like he’s been lights out in his rehab starts. But it’s the minors. We’ll see.
@SteveA Then the position to take would be, “I’d rather take my chances with Sproat than Megill now, and bring up Megill after Sept 1”. But taking any position from now about a post-season that is still six weeks away has little point or basis. Especially for a pitcher who hasn’t been to the majors at all yet. PS decisions can wait until that time comes.
Tong is getting called up before Sproat
Sproat will be called up first, followed shortly by Tong. My prediction. Sproat got scratched from his start today so we’ll see.
Sproat wasn’t scratched, per se. He’s being used out of the bullpen. Mendoza told the press that its part of the preparation and development so he’s ready in case the Mets need him, in whatever capacity that may be.
But it might have more to do with the fact that, despite Sproat’s extreme success in July and August, lefties are still logging a .763 OPS against him. Using him out of the pen allows the Mets to pick the situations in which he pitches.
He got lit up today.
I wonder if.. Frankie had the same Agent when he was with the A’s then traded to the Yanks and signed as a FA with the Mets..
He may/may not have known it, but the Agent certainly made the Yanks and Mets feel that Frankie was going to be a .. help.. to their ballclubs.
The Agent should be sought after…
Right. Because organizations only listen to an agent’s sales pitch and don’t do their own due diligence, perform physicals, nor check medical reports.
Should have used the “ sarcasm font “..
That’s what you get when you shop at Walmart
Walmart has a lot of good items. I have Walmart boots, they are Survivors, $100.00 but they are the same boots as Thorogood makes and they charge $250 for those boots.
Just stead clear of the radioactive Walmart shrimp.
pbs.org/newshour/health/walmart-recalls-its-frozen…
That’s all going to go to waste, Id take a 100Lb of the stuff and put it in a freezer and Id be eating shrimp soup for the next year.
At the very least, move it to a processor and make some cat food out of it.
But I like shrimp, Id be in on a bulk lot of that stuff.
Tapeworms and radiation are not the same thing.
No Mets fans respond to this?
Right, he’s already had TJ. Well he’s got guaranteed money for 2026, so he’s taken care of for next year.
Call me pessimistic, but I’m thinkin’ 99.9% chance he Opts in and is out for ’26…
He probably already opted in.
Best team to rehab with ever.
And $17 million to do it.
.01% chance that the Mets sign him to an extension?
Stearns can be crazy like that! 🤪
17 mill player option for 2026 yeah he’s going no where lol
Crazy to think that the better money is that Wheeler, Gray and Montas never throw another MLB pitch, crazy day.
Wheeler will most likely come back
His injury is usually a career killer
TOS is career-ending. Ask Stephen Strasburg.
Calling Brazobán isn’t something I’m enjoying but I wonder if it’s just for couple of days. I know many Mets fans would love to see Sproat. He just pitched Tuesday. Tong is pitching today (literally right now) in case anyone is wondering.
Owchie.
Jef Lowry of pitchers
This is easy. Flush it. Next. Next guy. Lets F’in Gooooo.
Sounds like he’s out for the rest of ’26 as well. Listening to Mendoza i almost thought it was Aaron Boone
Now it makes sense as to why he was garbage this year,
And here’s your participation trophy.
Montas was moved to the bullpen “earlier this month, where he’s surrendered four runs (two earned) on four walks and six hits (including a home run) while striking out just three.”
How many innings was that? I’d think maybe that would have been included here lol
See you in 2027 Frankie.
Ahh the sounds of Flushing in Metsville
I see what you did there winnie
Lol Jets
That “J” should be an “M”.
Hate to see anyone get hurt, but let’s be honest here, the Mets pitching rotation is better if Montas is on the IL.
I prefer not to kick a man when he’s down, but the injuries limited performance. It certainly clears a path for another young arm.
As of today, Montas is the only bad contract still on the Mets 40 man roster.
*Blackburn is no longer with the Mets who owe him about $1 million.
Montas contract is a Stearns mistake. It’s going to happen with pitchers.
$17 million plus the 110% LTC surcharge is $35.7 million for Montas in 2025.
Same in 2026.
Bad contract but not terrible.
Except that the LTC surcharge is not 110%, exactly. The LTC is only charged on the amounts that exceed the luxury tax, not the entire payroll. And the 110% kicks in only for the amounts that exceed $301 million. Amounts from $241M to $301M are taxed at lower, varying levels that go up in $20 million increments.
According to Spotrac, the Mets $338 million total payroll includes a total of $97 million in overages (of varying tax rates). . They are expected to pay a $83 million tax. That balances out to about a 24.5% tax on the total payroll, or 85.5% on the overages. If we prorate the taxes across the entire payroll, the tax on Montas only comes out to about $4.2 million.
If someone wanted to get too technical (and I don’t agree with this approach), they could say that Montas is not costing them any tax since he signed before they reached the $241M threshold. and suggest that the tax only applies to those contracts signed after the thresholds were [b]reached.
Either way, we have no idea where the 2026 payroll will end up and what the tax rates will be.
File for the insurance now for the rest of his contract, Montas robbed the Mets
Sad for the Mets, pitcher signings unfortunately end bad a lot
A bum when the Yankees traded for him…..you would think the Mets would have learned before it cost them $1million a horrible start.
Only an idiot would have signed him
Just like only a fool would have signed Stroman
How these experienced GMs make such stupid mistakes is beyond me
It was as obvious as the Ellsbury signing was an obvious mistake the minute it was announced