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Evan & Tiki

Frankie Montas is officially OUT of the Rotation

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

We have breaking news during the show that the Mets are sending Montas to the pen

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0:00.0

Steve Cohen may be reading some mentions.

0:04.4

There is breaking Met News.

0:05.9

The manager of the New York Mets gives it to us.

0:08.8

Have you guys made a decision on Frankie yet?

0:10.9

Yeah, he's going to go to the bullpen.

0:13.2

We have that conversation today.

0:14.8

Oh, wow.

0:15.4

He's going to throw his eye, and then the first day that he will be available is Thursday.

0:21.2

You have a starter yet for his...

0:23.3

Now, it'll be on Saturday, but we're still having the discussion who the next guy that's

0:30.0

going to take the baseball there.

0:31.5

Was it possible somebody would be called up from AAA?

0:34.2

It's possible.

0:35.5

It's possible.

0:36.5

I kind of love Carlos Mendoza because he don't mess around. No. Tell us about the struggle with Frankie Montas. Yeah, he's going to the bullpen. And Mike Puma did follow this by tweeting that he has heard McLean is ahead of Sprout to be called up. Sprote. Sprote. I'm sorry. Well, it better be McLean or Sprote. I mean, this cannot be Brandon Waddell. I'm just telling you right now. You cannot give us. Now, Jonathan just got promoted to AAA. It's not going to be him. Right. It cannot be another one of those bullpen game disasters. It needs to be a stud. So, wait, if I heard that right, he's going to start when? No, Frankie Monta? No, Saturday is where this turn in the rotation will come up. Thursday is when... So he's going to the bullpen now. Thursday is when Montas is available out of the pen. And then Paul Blackburn will pitch again for Syracuse. He is not an option for Saturday. So it's clearly trending towards one of the kids.

1:28.2

It's got to be one of the kids.

1:29.5

Boy, this is going to be an uncomfortable conversation

1:31.3

because I would love to be in the building for Nolan McLean's Major League debut.

1:34.6

And I'm going to be in North Carolina.

1:35.9

I wonder how my wife takes the whole, hey, I'll fly back and then fly back again.

1:40.2

You think she'll be pissed off of me? Yeah, definitely. I'm just kidding. Definitely. I would not even try to pull that. Just watch it on TV. That is one of the

1:49.1

the positive things of the David Stern era, what you just heard. And that is the word accountability.

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