Major League Baseball shut down in mid-March due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
A’s right-hander Frankie Montas did not. He kept throwing, kept training, kept pushing himself hard to improve upon last year’s excellent first-half form.
His Twitter followers saw snippets of what he was up to during the shutdown. He was lifting crazy weight, throwing bullpens and simulated games and once even hitting triple digits with his fastball.
That’s why it shocked no one that Montas was ahead of most everyone when the A’s reported to summer training camp last week at Oakland Coliseum.
“I was pretty built up,” Montas said.