Toward the beginning of the 2018 season, the Yankees thought that left-hander Jordan Montgomery had an elbow strain after he had complained about feeling a twinge in his pitching arm.
His initial recovery was going well until something again didn’t feel quite right while playing catch. Unfortunately, a second MRI revealed a much more disturbing diagnosis: he had a tear in the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) in his left elbow and required Tommy John surgery. The procedure was done two days later at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Montgomery’s season was over just like that.
The Yanks know that Monty might not return until late 2019 at the earliest.