{"id":109418,"date":"2024-10-02T06:51:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T23:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=109418"},"modified":"2024-10-02T06:51:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T23:51:03","slug":"diamondbacks-owner-takes-blame-for-signing-jordan-montgomery-says-it-was-biggest-mistake-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=109418","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks owner takes blame for signing Jordan Montgomery, says it was \u2018biggest mistake this season\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Less than 24 hours after the <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"93\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/team\/diamondbacks\/\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> were eliminated from postseason contention, owner Ken Kendrick sounded off on the signing of <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"PUR8jVS7n2o30vpg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/player\/jordan-montgomery-PUR8jVS7n2o30vpg\/\">Jordan Montgomery<\/a>, calling it \u201cour biggest mistake this season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick said it was his idea to pursue Montgomery, who agreed to a one-year, $25 million contract to join the team with a 2025 player option worth $22.5 million, and that he should be blamed for how it turned out. Montgomery finished with a career-high 6.23 ERA during a campaign in which the expensive starting pitcher was moved to the bullpen in late August.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf anyone wants to blame anyone for Jordan Montgomery being a Diamondback, you\u2019re talking to the guy that should be blamed,\u201d Kendrick told Arizona Sports 98.7 on Monday. \u201cI brought it to their attention, I pushed for it. They agreed to it. It wasn\u2019t in our game plan. \u2026 Looking back, in hindsight, a horrible decision to have invested that money in a guy who performed as poorly as he did. It\u2019s our biggest mistake this season from a talent standpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response to Kendrick\u2019s comments, Diamondbacks general manager Mike Hazen said the decision to acquire Montgomery was the result of a collaborative process that did not produce the desired results. But Hazen wasn\u2019t nearly as aggressive in writing off Montgomery\u2019s future with the franchise. The southpaw who played a key role in the <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"120\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/team\/tex-rangers\/\">Texas Rangers\u2019<\/a> World Series run a season ago, with a 2.79 ERA in 11 starts after being dealt by the <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"118\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/team\/cardinals\/\">St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> at the trade deadline, could opt into a second year with the Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIdeas come from everywhere, and I am ultimately responsible to say no to a lot of things, or yes to a lot of things,\u201d Hazen said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe kick around a lot of things, and ultimately it\u2019s my job to make decisions for this organization. \u2026 That was a group process and I understand why we made that decision at the time and I believe that Jordan Montgomery\u2019s going to have a better year next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Montgomery landed in Arizona, his contract fell well short of the five-year, $105 million deal that was projected by<em> The Athletic<\/em>\u2019s Tim Britton. By August, months after the deal was done and soon following Montgomery\u2019s transition to a reliever role, he directed blame to former agent Scott Boras, whose clientele includes many of <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/\">MLB<\/a>\u2019s impending free agents this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery\u2019s poor performance this season has likely lowered his stock considerably and could affect the offers he gets if he were to opt out of his contract with the Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, Boras kind of butchered it, so I\u2019m just trying to move on from the offseason and try to forget it,\u201d Montgomery told the Boston Herald.<\/p>\n<h2>Required reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>(Photo: Christian Petersen \/ Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5810360\/2024\/10\/01\/diamondbacks-owner-jordan-montgomery-signing-mistake\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than 24 hours after the Arizona Diamondbacks were eliminated from postseason contention, owner Ken Kendrick sounded off on the signing of Jordan Montgomery, calling it \u201cour biggest mistake this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=109418\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}