When Mets’ manager Carlos Mendoza said last week that right-handed pitcher Frankie Montas was going to be out the rest of the 2025 season with a UCL injury, he acknowledged that Tommy John surgery was possibly going to be required.

It now sounds that’s the route that Montas will be going, with the New York Post reporting Thursday that Montas will undergo surgery on his right elbow and is expected to be sidelined for potentially the entire 2026 season, as well, as he recovers.

Montas signed with the Mets last offseason on a two-year, $34 million deal after previous stops with the Chicago White Sox (2015), Athletics (2017-22), New York Yankees (2022-23), Cincinnati Reds (2024) and Milwaukee Brewers (2024).

It was a move that didn’t pan out well for the Mets, as Montas started the season o

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