{"id":491758,"date":"2025-11-18T20:10:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/mets-cut-ties-with-frankie-montas-in-the-final-year-of-his-34-million-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T20:10:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:10:24","slug":"mets-cut-ties-with-frankie-montas-in-the-final-year-of-his-34-million-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/mets-cut-ties-with-frankie-montas-in-the-final-year-of-his-34-million-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets cut ties with Frankie Mont\u00e1s in the final year of his $34 million deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NEW YORK.<\/strong>\u2013 The New York Mets announced this Tuesday the designation for assignment of Dominican pitcher <strong>Frankie Mont\u00e1s<\/strong>, ending his relationship in the last year of a two-season deal and <strong>US$34 million<\/strong>, signed last December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/hoy-cumple-anos-david-ortiz-las-estadisticas-que-inmortalizaron-al-big-papi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">:David Ortiz turns a year older today: the statistics that immortalized the \u201cBig Papi\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe decision comes amid a complicated scenario for the 32-year-old right-hander, who was projected to miss the entire 2026 campaign after recently undergoing surgery on his throwing elbow. Mont\u00e1s was only able to make <strong>seven starts<\/strong> with the club, in which he recorded an ERA of <strong>6.28<\/strong>, before being sidelined by physical discomfort that led to the diagnosis of an ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) injury.\n\nThe Dominican was part of the Mets&#8217; rotation reconstruction plan last winter, along with the additions of <strong>Griffin Canning<\/strong> and <strong>Clay Holmes<\/strong>, the latter becoming a starter. However, Mont\u00e1s began 2025 on the injured list and did not debut until <strong>June 24<\/strong>, seeing his participation interrupted again in August after presenting pain in the biceps.\n\nWith his departure, the Mets prepare for an aggressive market in search of high-level starters during free agency, where the team is expected to be among the top bidders for reinforcements for their rotation.\n\nThe move marks a new chapter in Mont\u00e1s&#8217; career, whose talent and power on the mound have been overshadowed in recent years by a history of injuries that have prevented him from maintaining continuity.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK.\u2013 The New York Mets announced this Tuesday the designation for assignment of Dominican pitcher Frankie Mont\u00e1s, ending his relationship in the last year of a two-season deal and US$34 million, signed last December. You may be interested:David Ortiz turns a year older today: the statistics that immortalized the \u201cBig Papi\u201d The decision comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":491759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,40813,13766,40853],"class_list":["post-491758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-major-leagues","tag-mlb","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-23VA","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/images-2-1.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yamell Rossi","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-7a176880-76f8-4b0c-9527-4e34feef45e4-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/images-2-1.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}