{"id":183134,"date":"2025-08-28T21:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/183134\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T21:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:28:12","slug":"frankie-montas-could-miss-all-of-2026-with-ucl-tear-in-mets-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/183134\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankie Montas could miss all of 2026 with UCL tear in Mets disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frankie Montas\u2019 has a UCL tear that will require surgery (and very likely the full Tommy John surgery, which would take him out for 2026, too).<\/p>\n<p>Montas will obviously pick up his $17 million 2026 option.<\/p>\n<p>Montas\u2019 replacement, the phenomenal spinmeister Nolan McLean, came up not a moment too soon.<\/p>\n<p>Jonah Tong was a smart call up too.\u00a0Tong throws 96-97 mph with two great breaking balls and a dynamic changeup. Scouts also say he is an \u201c80 human\u201d on the 20-80 scout scale. (Our Mark Sanchez <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/07\/sports\/mets-jonah-tong-has-blossoming-as-top-minor-league-pitcher\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">basically confirmed that<\/a> at the Futures Game.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frankie Montas\u2019 has a UCL tear that will require surgery (and very likely the full Tommy John surgery,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":183135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[6335,32619,1266,1305,62,2632,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-183134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-exclusive","9":"tag-frankie-montas","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york-mets","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-columnists","14":"tag-sports-plus","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115108518523852190","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}