{"id":81804,"date":"2025-11-19T03:30:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/mets-cut-frankie-montas-17-million-at-stake-and-uncertain-future-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T03:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:30:38","slug":"mets-cut-frankie-montas-17-million-at-stake-and-uncertain-future-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/mets-cut-frankie-montas-17-million-at-stake-and-uncertain-future-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets Cut Frankie Montas: $17 Million at Stake and Uncertain Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2013 Frankie Montas has been designated for assignment by the New York Mets, who owe the injured right-handed pitcher $17 million for the final season of a two-year, $34 million contract.<\/p>\n<p>Montas, who will turn 33 in March, underwent Tommy John surgery on September 9 and is expected to miss the 2026 season. Due to his contract and health, he is expected to go through waivers and be released.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets selected outfielder Nick Morabito&#8217;s contract from Double-A Binghamton, protecting the 22-year-old player from next month&#8217;s Rule 5 draft.<\/p>\n<p>Montas signed with the Mets as a free agent in December and went 3-2 with a 6.28 ERA in seven starts and two relief appearances, making his last appearance on August 15. He has a 47-48 record with a 4.20 ERA in 10 seasons in the Major Leagues with the Chicago White Sox (2015), Oakland (2017-22), the New York Yankees (2022-23), Cincinnati (2024), Milwaukee (2024), and the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Morabito hit .273 with 6 home runs, 59 RBIs, and 49 stolen bases in 60 attempts this year for the Rumble Ponies and has 108 steals in the last two seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2013 Frankie Montas has been designated for assignment by the New York Mets, who owe the injured right-handed pitcher $17 million for the final season of a two-year, $34 million contract. Montas, who will turn 33 in March, underwent Tommy John surgery on September 9 and is expected to miss the 2026 season. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[4389,347,10322,324],"class_list":{"0":"post-81804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-frankie-montas","9":"tag-new-york-mets","10":"tag-nick-morabito","11":"tag-tommy-john"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}