When the Yankees acquired Frankie Montas from the Oakland Athletics at the trade deadline, the general consensus throughout baseball was that they had added a top-of-the-rotation starter to slot behind Gerrit Cole in the postseason rotation. With Nestor Cortes reaching a career high in innings pitched, Luis Severino out with a lat strain, and Jameson Taillon struggling at the time, the move was seen as an excellent Plan B after the team lost out on Luis Castillo.
Obviously, that move hasn’t worked out as planned, at least as far as 2022 is concerned. Montas struggled in his eight starts in pinstripes, posting an unsightly 6.