Jordan Montgomery

31-Year-Old PitcherSP

Arizona Diamondbacks

2024 Stats

W-L

8-7

ERA

6.23

WHIP

1.65

2025 Projections

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2025 Fantasy Outlook

Montgomery hoped to parlay a strong 2023 season, which included a World Series ring with the Rangers, into a lucrative long-term deal but one never materialized. The left-hander eventually signed with Arizona late in spring training, and the non-traditional ramp up had a deleterious effect on Montgomery. He ended the season with a 6.28 ERA over 25 outings (21 starts), last among pitchers with more than 140 innings. Unsurprisingly, he exercised a 2025 option and joins the competition of six legitimate starters. Nothing is guaranteed for Montgomery, who was hit hard (41 percent), as opponents teed off on his sinker, the pitch he throws most. His walk rate jumped (6.2% to 8.3%), while his strikeout rate plummeted (21.4% to 15.6%). Warning flags abound, but Montgomery was one of 14 pitchers with at least 550 innings pitched and a sub-3.65 ERA from 2020-23. Read Past Outlooks

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League Majors

Bats L

Throws L

40 Man Yes

Height 6'6"

Weight 228

DOB 12/27/1992

Born Sumter, SC

College South Carolina

Drafted 4th Rd 2014 NYY

Returning to AZ

PArizona Diamondbacks

October 31, 2024

Montgomery exercised his $22.5 million player option for the 2025 season Thursday, Mark Feinsand of MLB.com reports.

ANALYSIS
Montgomery signed a deal with the Diamondbacks in March and didn't make his first start until April 19. He never seemed to get on track, however, posting a 6.23 ERA and 1.65 WHIP with just an 83:44 K:BB across 117 innings. Given his struggles, it's little surprise Montgomery exercised his option, and he'll look to rebuild his value in 2025 before heading into free agency.

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Left/Right Pitching Splits

Since 2022

-7%

BAA vs LHP

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-19%

BAA vs LHP

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-13%

BAA vs RHP

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-18%

BAA vs LHP

	BAA	Batters	K	BB	H	2B	3B	HR
Since 2022vs Left	.243	303	78	13	69	13	1	3
Since 2022vs Right	.262	1730	329	115	416	106	7	50
2024vs Left	.260	88	18	10	20	7	0	1
2024vs Right	.322	444	65	34	129	33	3	13
2023vs Left	.277	106	22	2	28	2	1	1
2023vs Right	.241	671	144	46	149	43	2	17
2022vs Left	.198	109	38	1	21	4	0	1
2022vs Right	.242	615	120	35	138	30	2	20
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Home/Away Pitching Splits

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-11%

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ERA at Home

	ERA	WHIP	IP	W	L	SV	K/9	BB/9	HR/9
Since 2022Home	4.24	1.31	269.2	18	11	1	7.8	2.4	0.9
Since 2022Away	3.78	1.21	214.1	9	13	0	7.3	2.4	1.1
2024Home	6.90	1.86	61.1	4	4	1	6.3	4.1	1.0
2024Away	5.50	1.42	55.2	4	3	0	6.5	2.6	1.1
2023Home	3.61	1.26	99.2	7	5	0	8.2	2.2	0.9
2023Away	2.73	1.11	89.0	3	6	0	7.6	2.4	0.8
2022Home	3.31	1.04	108.2	7	2	0	8.2	1.6	0.7
2022Away	3.75	1.18	69.2	2	4	0	7.6	2.2	1.6
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Stat Review

How does Jordan Montgomery compare to other starting pitchers?

This section compares his stats with all starting pitcher seasons from the previous three seasons (minimum 120 innings)*. The bar represents the player's percentile rank. For example, if the bar is halfway across, then the player falls into the 50th percentile for that stat and it would be considered average.

* Exit Velocity, Barrels/BBE %, Balls Hit 95+ MPH %, and Spin Rate are benchmarked against 2019 data (min 120 IP). See here for more exit velocity/barrels stats plus an explanation of current limitations with that data set.

K/BB

1.89

K/9

6.4

BB/9

3.4

HR/9

1.1

Fastball

91.9 mph

ERA

6.23

WHIP

1.65

BABIP

.353

GB/FB

1.43

Left On Base

63.4%

Exit Velocity

82.1 mph

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4.1%

Spin Rate

2130 rpm

Balls Hit 95+ MPH

28.5%

Swinging Strike

12.2%

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For the second straight season, Montgomery began the year pitching for a team with playoff aspirations but was traded at the deadline to a team a team still in contention. Of course, last season ended with Montgomery celebrating a World Series win with the Rangers. Montgomery began the season recording a 3.42 ERA and 1.25 WHIP for the Cardinals, fanning 108 in 121 frames. After joining Texas, Montgomery posted a 2.79 ERA and 1.09 WHIP punching out 58 in 67.2 innings. His 21.4 percent strikeout rate is below average, but the southpaw is frugal with free passes and does a good job keeping the ball in the yard. Montgomery is durable, with his 94 starts over the past three seasons tied for sixth most in MLB. A low strikeout rate hurts Montgomery's fantasy appeal, but it also keeps his cost of acquisition affordable. There is always risk a pitcher of this ilk experiences some misfortune, but he has displayed the ability to buffer ratios in a rotisserie league format.

The lefty almost turned himself into a meme with how good he was initially after being traded from the Yankees to the Cardinals in early August. Montgomery allowed just a single earned run in his first four starts for St. Louis, a run capped off by a one-hit shutout of the Cubs in Wrigley. Eventually, the Devil Magic wore off and Montgomery returned to his solid, if flappable, ways. He worked from behind in 2021 in the sense that he threw his offspeed pitches (changeup, curveball) as his two primary pitches but changed his pitch mix this past season to feature his sinker, in particular after the move to St. Louis. It's not like he was bad during his time with New York -- the team felt it needed a good defensive outfielder -- and the Cardinals may be onto something with this new version of Montgomery. That being said, the modest swing-and-miss would seem to cap his fantasy upside.

Montgomery enjoyed his first full season of work since the 2017 season, and arguably had his best professional season to date. He had Tommy John surgery in June of 2018 -- the success of 2020 coupled with his 2021 efforts show he is completely recovered from the surgery, but not without flaws. Montgomery has rather large splits to date with a 4.59 ERA and a .261/.316/.416 slash line allowed versus righties the past two seasons compared to a 2.53 ERA and a .228/.280/.322 versus lefties. He does pitch better at home (3.84 ERA) than away (4.36 ERA), which is not surprising given how spacious Yankee Stadium plays to the left-center-field gap. Monty works like a modern day Jimmy Key in that his changeup and breaking ball are his preferred pitches, and the league hit below .200 against both offerings while smashing his sinker to the tune of a .359 average. The flaws limit his ceiling, so this is not the guy to target if you're looking for another level.

Montgomery had a much better 2020 season than his 5.11 ERA suggests. The southpaw's 3.65 xFIP ranked second among Yankees starters and was supported by an outstanding 5.22 K/BB. In addition, Montgomery held opposing batters to an 84.6 mph average exit velocity, placing in the 95th percentile. Finally -- and perhaps most importantly -- the 6-foot-6 hurler remained healthy after missing most of the previous two seasons due to the Tommy John surgery he underwent in June of 2018. Montgomery doesn't throw hard (92.5 mph average fastball) but mixes up a four-pitch arsenal well, leading to a healthy 12.9 SwStr% and 24.4 K% last season. There's a good chance positive regression is coming, which should boost the left-hander's overall numbers and could make him a nice sleeper pick as a solid mid-rotation starter this season.

Montgomery spent 2019 recovering from mid-2018 Tommy John surgery. The lefty pitched all of 7.2 innings of real baseball over three levels last season, capped off by two appearances with the big-league club in September. Before the surgery, Montgomery was useful as a back-end starter in 2017, collecting strikeouts and enjoying the run support the Yankees can provide. Given he has thrown a combined 35 innings the past two seasons, there is only so much work Montgomery is going to be able to do in 2020. The last thing to return for every TJS recipient is command. Control is throwing it in the strike zone, while command is throwing it where the pitch is called for in the zone. He will be approximately the Yankees' No. 7 starter on the depth chart heading into camp, so the expectation should be that he will wait his turn while staying moderately stretched out at Triple-A.

Montgomery's first five starts of the 2018 campaign were sluggish. He was walking more while fanning fewer than he did in his promising rookie season. The lefty was lifted after one inning in a May 1 start in Houston with what was initially diagnosed as a left elbow strain. A little over a month later, Montgomery went under the knife, undergoing Tommy John surgery. With a typical 12-to-14 month recovery time frame, it's possible Montgomery can return sometime during the second half of 2019. However, the Yankees aren't going to hold a rotation spot for him, so he's likely to return as a reliever, or perhaps spend extended time starting for the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders. Unless you have deep reserves, Montgomery really isn't even a target for those in keeper leagues as a 2020 stash since his role is unclear.

Above-average control of four average offerings will take a pitcher a long way in Major League Baseball, as Montgomery showed last season. He only throws his fastball 92 mph and none of his secondary pitches (curveball, slider, change) are truly plus yet, but they all play against big-league hitters -- the offspeed is good enough for Montgomery to keep right-handed hitters in check (.241/.301/.386 last season). Montgomery limited the free passes in his first exposure to big-league hitters (3.0 BB/9), which was huge as he did have some issues with the long ball, especially on the road (1.7 HR/9). There may be room for growth in the strikeout department given his 12.2 percent swinging-strike rate, above-average chase rate and track record at the upper levels of the minors, but owners would be wise to simply pay for a repeat (of both production and workload), with anything beyond that being a bonus.

A big-bodied southpaw out of South Carolina, the 6-foot-6 Montgomery tormented the opposition in 2016. A polished college hurler drafted in the fourth round in 2014, Montgomery had no issues with Double-A Trenton to begin the year and performed even better with a promotion to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, recording a 0.97 ERA and 37:9 K:BB in six starts to finish the year. Montgomery doesn't have one standout pitch, and he may not be frontline starter material, but he uses a three-pitch combination of fastball, changeup and curveball extremely effectively. Tinkering with Montgomery's mechanics has also allowed him to register a few more ticks on the radar gun. Montgomery should start the year in Triple-A with a chance to make his MLB debut by midseason.

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Takes no-decision in Milwaukee

PArizona Diamondbacks

September 23, 2024

Montgomery didn't factor in the decision Sunday against the Brewers after giving up three runs on six hits with six strikeouts and two walks over 4.1 innings.