{"id":102821,"date":"2025-08-28T21:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/102821\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T21:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:01:11","slug":"frankie-montas-could-miss-all-of-2026-with-ucl-tear-in-mets-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/102821\/","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\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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":2,"featured_media":102822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,5607,67745,591,1830,85,2136,735],"class_list":["post-102821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-exclusive","tag-frankie-montas","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}