As he prepared for the 2023 campaign, Josiah Gray decided to work a cutter into the mix a bit more, after throwing it 0.5% of the time (13 total pitches) in his first full major league run in 2022.
Nationals’ Pitching Coach Jim Hickey was open to the possibilities when he first saw Gray throw the pitch in Spring Training.
“With the cutter,” Gray told MLB Network Radio hosts Mike Ferrin and Jim Duquette in a late-January interview this winter, “... I came to Spring Training with it last year, it was, ‘Hey, I’ve been working on a cutter.