【N.J】 Yankees’ Frankie Montas heads for MRI with bum shoulder | What it means – New Jersey News

MILWAUKEE — Yankees trade-deadline rotation improve Frankie Montas acted as if he was unconcerned after his newest dangerous outing, a 3 1/3-inning, four-run no-decision in Friday night time’s 7-6 loss to the Brewers.

Along with his eight-start Yankees ERA hovering to a horrible 6.35, the righty’s post-game feedback included this remark:

“I’m not really worried about it.”

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Whereas chatting with reporters, Montas hid that he did have one thing to fret about. His pitching shoulder was performing up throughout his outing, the identical one which pressured him to overlook a begin earlier than the All-Star break when he was nonetheless with the Oakland Athletics.

Montas alerted the Yankees teaching employees about his discomfort after the sport and when it nonetheless was a difficulty the next day, he was despatched off late Saturday afternoon for an MRI that in all probability will decide is his problem is season ending or maybe simply one other minor setback.

“It seems to be at least symptomatic wise, as you check him out, less than what he was dealing with when he was in Oakland a couple of months ago,” supervisor Aaron Boone stated earlier than Saturday night time’s Yankees-Brewers recreation. “But we’ll obviously know more when we get this (MRI) and they can move forward from there.”

Montas’ velocity was down slightly within the final inning his begin on Friday, dropping from 95-96 mph to 93-94, however the Yankees didn’t suppose a lot of it till placing two and two collectively.

“Now in hindsight, that could have been a sign,” Boone stated.

That is extra dangerous information for the injury-riddled Yankees, who had been relying on Montas to be their No. 2 starter within the postseason. They had been nonetheless hoping for that whereas Montas struggled within the first six weeks with the Yankees, however now his season might be over or he could also be simply able to reteurn because the playoffs are about to start.

“We’ll see what we’ve got from the result of this (MRI),” Boone stated. “We’ll have a better clue as the next 24-to-48 hours.”

With Montas sidelined, Domingo German will return to the rotation after being moved to the bullpen this weekend on account of Luis Severino’s return this coming Wednesday from the 60-day injured checklist.

German has been far more efficient than what the Yankees have been getting from Montas, going 2-3 with a 3.12 ERA in 12 video games, 11 begins plus 1 2/3 scoreless innings of aid on Friday night time.

No matter how Montas’ damage state of affairs performs out, the early opinions on his commerce aren’t good for the Yankees, who gave up 4 of their ranked prospects to get him and veteran reliever Lou Trivino — two left-handers who’re already in majors, JP Sears and Ken Waldichuk, plus Double-A righty Luis Medina and Excessive-A infielder Cooper Bowman.

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The Yankees made the commerce regardless that Montas had made solely two begins after not pitching for nearly two weeks on account of a sore shoulder, a stretch that didn’t require an injured-list stint as a result of among the layoff was throughout the All-Star break.

However perhaps the Yankees traded for broken items.

“Obviously we knew he was coming off injury that only cost him 17 days,” Boone stated. “But everything was suggested that he was healthy.”

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Randy Miller could also be reached at rmiller@versuszone.com.