It may be very early in spring training, but there are already three MLB teams that are putting out fires in their spring training camps because of injuries or contract uncertainties.
MLB injury news: New York Yankees pitcher Frankie Montas
It didn’t take long in the course of spring training for New York’s trade with the Oakland A’s for Montas to go from not so great to really, really bad.
Right-hander Frankie Montas, the biggest acquisition for the New York Yankees at the trade deadline last year who was expected to be a big part of their rotation this year, will undergo shoulder surgery on Tuesday that could cause him to miss the season, manager Aaron Boone said.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) February 15, 2023
This gut punch for New York’s rotation comes after Montas made just eight post-trade deadline starts for the Yankees last season after shoulder issues began to flare up.
There was already talk that Montas might miss some time at the start of the season with his shoulder, but the possibility of missing the entire season with the 29-year-old right-hander scheduled to be a free agent at the end of the campaign could very well make the time Montas spends in the Bronx very brief … and expensive for the Yankees, who sent four prospects to Oakland for Montas and reliever Lou Trivino.