Frankie Montas is going to undergo shoulder surgery and his
season in 2023 is in Jeopardy Frankie is going to
have surgery. Um it is now scheduled for the
21st of this month and then hopefully a few days
after that, he'll, he'll come join us.
It's been a couple of different shutdowns where he was
getting built up. Uh you know, then he
went out and saw albatross who cleared him to to
go again, he was building back up and just
still wasn't quite right. So I went back and
, and now we've gotten to the point where they're
gonna go in and they'll scope it and uh,
and then, you know, well Have a better
idea of the timeframe, you know, once that
happens on the 21st and then hopefully he's here a
few days later, best cases, he would be
back late in the season. Um but we're really
gonna know um a lot after the 21st when they
know specifically what they have to do in there definitely
left a sour taste in my mouth in the last
few years, obviously not being out there all the
time. Um and and not winning, not getting
to the playoffs. Um like you said, I'm
in my thirties now, so, you know,
it's time, you know the way Perry and the
front office construction constructed a team this offseason getting a
lot better, you know, it's definitely, you
know, signs in the right direction, you know
, we got a good team, I mean,
I'm gonna do whatever I can, you keep showing
here, sure, you know, I really haven't
talked to Shelly about, you know, his,
his future, but uh he seems like he's having
a good time here and um you know, so
far in spring getting to talk to him, you
definitely think about it, you definitely think about,
you know, it's been, you know, six
years now since you were playing and we haven't been
in the playoffs, so, you know, this
is if there's any year that we need to get
to the playoffs this year, I mean there's a
reason why I wanted to come here, I mean
, you look at all the guys that we have
and everybody can post post numbers, everybody can keep
us in the ballgame to win games ultimately. So
it's gonna be fun to work with the staff like
that. Um I had an awesome opportunity to work
with a great staff in Philly and um you know
, this is just right up there with it,
if not better. So I'm really excited get going
and and really know these guys inside and out really
, as good as we want to be. Um
I mean you saw a taste of it last year
with all those guys, I mean they were absolutely
incredible the entire year. Um so I'm, you
know, looking forward to kind of slide right in
and and benefiting those guys and helping in any way
I can, but also at the same time learning
from everything that they have in their heads to um
that's one thing I love doing is kind of communicating
with pictures and seeing what really put those guys over
the edge with putting me over the edge kind of
thing. So um, you know, really looking
forward to that. I've been dealing with the issue
for a long time, I'd say years, it's
just something that's gradually gotten worse over time. And
um, we had a unique opportunity within having Tommy
john surgery to go ahead and tackle this. There
was available time for it to be done. So
we decided, you know, we're gonna, you
know, focus on getting better, get everything better
that way when we're back and I can be the
best player I can be and be really healthy.
So we just got a good opportunity and timeline to
do that. Jacob deGrom felt some tightness in his
left side and given the cold weather and how early
it is in camp, we're told they're going to
hold him back a day or two. We're told
the seriousness level is such that he would play through
it if it were the regular season. Meantime,
chris Young said that he was the one who made
the decision and did it out. An abundance of
caution said that Graham wanted to be out there,
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