On the day pitchers and catchers report to spring training, the Yankees are already down a starter. Frankie Montas will undergo surgery on his right shoulder and could miss the entire 2023 season, manager Aaron Boone revealed.
The 29-year-old was acquired in a trade deadline deal from the Oakland A’s last season. Montas experienced shoulder issues while with the A’s and those continued as he made the move to the Bronx. The right-hander’s surgery is scheduled for Feb. 21.
“It’s been a couple of different shutdowns where he was getting built up,” Boone told reporters Wednesday at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Fla. “He got cleared to go again, he was building back up and he just still wasn’t quite right and now we’ve gotten to the point where they’ll go in and scope it and then they’ll have a better idea of the time frame.”
