The Mets have come to a decision with Frankie Montas.
With his 30-day minor league rehab assignment officially coming to an end, New York has decided that the veteran right-hander will jump into the big-league rotation on Tuesday night against the Braves.
Montas, of course, has been sidelined since spring training with a right lat strain.
After a long recovery process he was finally able to get back into game action but things didn’t quite go as planned — as he was roughed up over six outings with Triple-A and High-A Brooklyn.
His latest appearance came on Wednesday with Syracuse — he started well but ultimately faltered off, allowing five runs on seven hits and a walk while striking out two over five innings.
That brought his ERA up to an ugly 13.17 over just 13.2 innings of work.
But with no time left on his rehab assignment and a need for healthy arms in the rotation, the Mets have decided to insert him into the mix for his team debut.
“I’m not gonna lie, he got hit around,” Carlos Mendoza said. “Look we’ve seen it before where guys in spring training struggle and get hit around, then once you put them in a big-league game under the lights with a gameplan and making adjustments they flip the switch.
“He’s had success so far at this level so hopefully that’s the case here with a guy who basically treated this rehab process as spring training and he got hit around — but again, we believe in the player and we’re going to give him a chance.”
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