Mike Montgomery healthy?

" Kansas City prospect Mike Montgomery, who had been scheduled to pitch Friday, is healthy but had his turn in the rotation skipped. The 21-year-old left-hander, 2-4 with a 5.83 ERA, is winless in nine starts since May 4, and leads the Pacific Coast League with 46 walks."

Despite the numbers, he's the best pitching prospect on that team. Skipping his turn to help Omaha win a game doesn't make sense, so my read is that he's either injured or the team wants him to take some extra time to clear his head....but isn't 5 days between starts plenty of time to clear one's head?

I hope this doesn't turn into a surprise TJ surgery announcement in a month, but I suppose I wouldn't be too surprised.

11 months ago kcdc1 4 comments 0 recs |

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Ouch, I wonder.

I would trade for a starter next year if Monty isn’t going to turn things around. Or we could just put Davies in the rotation again.

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by Jack Marsh on Jun 26, 2011 12:24 PM EDT reply actions

They seriously needed to do this about 1 month into the season

and make him sit out of game action for at least a month working on repeating his delivery. He’s got some big mechanical things to fix after seeing him for one inning in the Royals Futures game. And if he doesn’t, TJ sounds like it’s an option.

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by 306008 on Jun 27, 2011 10:13 AM EDT reply actions