The Yankees introduced this afternoon that they’d activated right-hander Frankie Montas from the 60-day injured checklist. In corresponding strikes, the membership positioned outfielder Jasson Dominguez on the 60-day IL and optioned right-hander Randy Vasquez to Triple-A.

Montas is anticipated to make his 2023 season debut as a multi-inning piggyback starter in one of many membership’s closing two video games in opposition to the Royals. Will probably be simply Montas’s ninth look with the Yankees since they acquired him from the A’s forward of final yr’s commerce deadline. In eight begins with the membership final yr, Montas struggled to a 6.35 ERA with a 4.93 FIP. He struck out simply 17.8% of batters confronted with the Yankees and walked 8.1% earlier than being positioned on the injured checklist with shoulder irritation final September. The difficulty ultimately required surgical procedure again in February, and Montas has missed the complete 2023 marketing campaign up to now whereas rehabbing.

Regardless of Montas’s tumultuous Yankees tenure, the 30-year-old right-hander seems to hope to return to the membership in 2024. Montas informed reporters (together with Greg Joyce of the New York Put up) that he hopes to re-sign in New York this coming offseason, although he added that the perimeters haven’t but mentioned a possible new contract at this level.

Though his historical past within the Bronx up to now has been tough, a reunion might make sense for either side. Gerrit Cole, Carlos Rodon, and Nestor Cortes seem like the one three gamers locked into rotation spots headed into the 2024 marketing campaign, and the addition of a veteran arm like Montas might ease the strain on children like Michael King, Clarke Schmidt, and Vasquez. Montas would absolutely be a reasonably short-term, low-cost signing given his latest historical past, which means the Yankees’ skill to take a much bigger swing at a top-of-the-market arm like Blake Snell or Yoshinobu Yamamoto can be unaffected, ought to they be all for such a deal.

For Montas, it might give the righty a well-known place to re-establish himself because the mid-rotation starter he has been all through his profession. From 2018-2021, Montas posted a 3.57 ERA with a virtually matching 3.55 FIP in 401 innings of labor. That physique of labor was 17% higher than league common by measure of ERA+, and is true consistent with the efficiency Montas delivered in 2022 previous to departing Oakland. In 19 begins (104 2/3 innings) with the A’s final yr, Montas posted a 3.18 ERA (116 ERA+) and three.35 FIP with a strikeout price of 25.8% in opposition to a stroll price of simply 6.6%. If Montas is ready to recapture the shape he had within the first half final yr, he’d absolutely be an asset to the rotation of the Yankees or every other membership trying so as to add a mid-rotation arm this offseason.