Jordan Montgomery to have Tommy John surgery

The Jordan Montgomery situation has just resolved itself, albeit in the most unfortunate way possible. The pitcher said this morning that he will be having Tommy John surgery, a procedure which means a) he won’t pitch for the D-backs this year, and b) there’s no chance of getting salary relief by trading him to another team. The pitcher said:

Just haven’t been recovering very well. Day after that last game, came back sore, took a day off like I normally do. Next day, it was still a little achy, so we pushed my bullpen back. Threw a pretty good bullpen, but something was wrong, and they told me we were just going to get some imaging on it. We thought it was just like a joint thing, would get…