Montas returns for his Met debut

NATIONAL LEAGUE

New York Mets
NEWS: Frankie Montas (right lat strain) is expected to make his season and Met debut Tuesday night versus Atlanta.
IMPACT: Medium
BHQ SPIN:  Montas should be on a pretty close to normal pitch count, as he tossed 80 pitches last week in his final rehab start for Triple-A Syracuse.  That’s the good news. The bad news is he had a 13.19 ERA over four starts for Syracuse. That strongly suggests fantasy teams will want to watch Montas for a while before activating him. We have gradually been increasing his playing time projection as his return from his injury approached, and we are now giving him an 8% playing time projecti. His most recent bump came at the expense of Tylor Megill, who went on the IL last...

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