Josiah Gray of the Washington Nationals has all the requirements to be considered for baseball’s “Man of the Year” award, should one be available, as he is among the league’s most gifted starters. The product of New Rochelle, New York, was selected by the Cincinnati Reds in the second round of the 2018 Major League Baseball June Amateur Draft out of Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. He made his professional debut with the Greenville Reds before the Reds organization traded him to the LA Dodgers the same year.
The right-hander took several years to get comfortable and warm up in the league, but in 2023 he went 8–13 with a 3.91 ERA, a career high. He was selected as the lone representative of the Nationals for the 2023 MLB All-Star Game.
Even as a New Yorker, Gray is a big fan of Dirty South music including artists like Future, Lil Wayne and Young Thug. The 26-year-old Nat has blessed us with an exclusive peek into his own personal playlist courtesy of Black Baseball Mixtape.
