Who can replace Gray and McGee the rest of the season?

[welch]

Gray seems to need to take the rest of the season off. McGee is hopeless, and even dangerous. Ah, but who could replace them? The Nats have cannibalized Rochester, so who is left?

- Logan Verrett is their last starting pitcher other than Joan Adon, and Adon needs to be left in peace. Verrett is about 31, so he is nothing special, but he could fill out the rotation.

- Luis Avilan, a reliever I had forgotten, is a lefty.

- Down at Harrisburg, there is a pitcher named Seth Romero. He's on the 40-man and he's also a lefty and he has had a few decent games this month.

Any other possibles?

[Natsinpwc]

Only 24 games left.  Just ride it out.  The team is .500 since the trade deadline even with these issues.

[Slateman]

Literally call up anyone.

[aspenbubba]

Use Mason Thompson as an opener as DM threw out. Let some of the bully pitch 2-3 innings each. It avoids the meltdowns that occur when our SP try to reach 5 or 6 innings.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

We do not need a 5th starter until 9/20. There are several off days coming up. Gray and Davey pretty much acknowledged before this start that Gray would be skipped sometime. My guess id that was happening regardless of today. I can see them giving him starts on 9/20, 25, 30. If Gore or Cavalli are back, he would get fewer starts.

Oh, it'll be Perez if McGee is dropped

[welch]

Weems. He was called up today, but no one was dropped yet. Maybe McGee?

[JCA-CrystalCity]

discussing his new sinker and how he moved away from the 4  seam fastball.

Gray, 24, entered having yielded the most homers (37) and walks (63) in the National League. On Friday, though, he didn’t walk a batter until the sixth and kept Miami in the yard. It was the first time in 13 starts an opponent didn’t take him deep, a stretch going back to June 25. Instead, the Marlins jumped ahead by pounding two four-seam fastballs for a pair of doubles in the first. That quickly erased Lane Thomas’s leadoff homer off Marlins starter Braxton Garrett.

By inning, Gray threw four four-seamers in the first, four in the second, two in the third and three in the fourth, then all but totally shelved it. If he can refine the sinker, its horizontal movement could help him better avoid hard contact moving forward. The average velocity for the pitch was just more than a mile per hour slower than his four-seamer (93.4 to 94.6). Testing it this much — something Gray can do at this stage of a lost season — is a promising development, even if it was couched inside a loss.

Nationals fall to Marlins, but Josiah Gray finds a pitch to believe in

[Slateman]

We're just now teaching him a sinker? :shake:

[GNatsNoMore]

discussing his new sinker and how he moved away from the 4  seam fastball.
Nationals fall to Marlins, but Josiah Gray finds a pitch to believe in

Working on that should keep him busy during the off season. 

[English Natsie]

According to 'Nationals News', Gray has his own clothes line. I assume he has his own clothes pegs as well?...