The Nationals have agreed to a minor-league deal with right-hander Kevin McGowan, according to Jesse Dougherty of the Washington Post (via Twitter). He’ll be assigned to Triple-A Fresno.
McGowan, 27, made eight MLB appearances with the Mets in 2017 but hasn’t been back since. He stumbled to a 4.68 ERA in 82 2/3 innings in the upper minors last year in the New York organization before qualifying for minor-league free agency last fall.
Opening the 2019 campaign in the rotation for the Sugar Land Skeeters, McGowan has pitched to a 2.29 ERA with an 18:8 K/BB ratio over 19 2/3 innings. He has mostly worked in a relief capacity in the upper minors but did work as a starter earlier in his career.
For the Nats, this move helps fill in some Triple-A innings after several promotions and departures. Most recently, the club parted with Austin Adams, who had loads of strikeouts at Fresno but didn’t get a shot with the relief-needy team in the majors. He has recorded seven Ks in three frames already at the MLB level for the Mariners.
Who cares?
You because your ignorance forced you to comment.
I wonder if he’s related to Dustin McGowan?
Skeeters.
Wrong Austin Adams link, Jeff
Auto-linker strikes again! Thanks, I’ll fix it.
Austn L. Adams.
Nice, just got him back TTM from the Skeeters
It’s always pitchers rocking the long hair. You don’t see too many position players with long hair.
I can think of like Ben Gamel and Anthony Rendon. That’s about it
And Brandon Crawford
Austin Adams did appear once with the Nats, which didn’t go well after he came over on a red-eye from Fresno. He was very wild and was sent back down. It seemed like the Nats cut him surprisingly quickly afterwards but they might have needed his spot on the 40-man roster. He had been lights out in Spring training, if I’m keeping my Austins straight (they had several of them at one time).