After being traded to the Milwaukee Brewers at the trade deadline last season, Montas was mostly effective. He allowed three or fewer runs in eight of 11 starts and increased his strikeout percentage from 18.9% with the Cincinnati Reds to 28.6% with the Brewers.

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However, it's hard not to call Kodai Senga an ace, given that his 1.47 ERA is the best in all of baseball right now. But in that case, it initially seemed like the Mets might be without their ace for some time after Senga suffered a hamstring strain while covering first base in the sixth inning of the Mets' June 12 game against the Washington Nationals.

New York Mets right-hander Kodai Senga, the major league ERA leader, was diagnosed with a Grade 1 strain of his right hamstring, hours after he was placed on the 15-day injured list

While Friday's MRI showed "relatively good news" on right-hander Kodai Senga's hamstring strain, the major league leader in ERA still is set to miss at least a month, manager Carlos Mendoza indicated.