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Jon Gray Suffers Season-Ending Foot Fracture

By Mark Polishuk | August 22, 2019 at 8:07pm CDT

THURSDAY: Gray will undergo surgery Friday, Thomas Harding of MLB.com tweets.

WEDNESDAY, 1:56PM: Speaking to MLB.com’s Jake Rill and other reporters, Gray said his injury is another stress fracture, similar to his 2017 injury.  Gray indicated that he is considering having surgery to correct the problem, and such a procedure wouldn’t interfere with his readiness for the start of the 2020 season.

12:07PM: Rockies right-hander Jon Gray will miss the rest of the season after suffering a left foot fracture, the team announced.  Gray has been placed on the 60-day injured list.  Colorado purchased the contract of right-hander Tim Melville from Triple-A, and Melville will take Gray’s spot as the starter for today’s game against the Diamondbacks.

The news brings a premature end to what was looking like the best of Gray’s four full MLB seasons, as the 27-year-old had a 3.84 ERA, 2.68 K/BB rate, and an even 9.0 K/9 over 150 innings for the Rox.  It was a nice bounce-back from the 5.12 ERA Gray posted in 172 1/3 frames in 2018, though advanced metrics indicated that he was a little unlucky to post such an inflated ERA, while some of his 2019 ERA indicators (4.06 FIP, 3.89 xFIP, 4.35 SIERA) hint at a bit of good fortune this year.  Statcast also paints rather a dour picture of Gray’s 2019 work, as he is in the bottom 10 percent of all pitchers in hard-hit ball rate and fastball spin rate, not to mention a below-average xwOBA.

On the plus side, Gray posted a career-best 50.4% grounder rate and he is still one of the game’s hardest throwers, with an average fastball velocity of 96.1 mph.  He was also the rare pitcher who actually performed better at Coors Field (3.46 ERA in 75 1/3 IP) than on the road (4.22 ERA in 74 2/3 IP).  With 12.6 fWAR accumulated since the start of the 2016 season, Gray has become a generally reliable, if still a touch inconsistent, rotation stalwart, which is no small feat for a homegrown Rockies pitcher.

While he has been pretty durable over his short career, this is the second time Gray has suffered a major left foot injury, as he spent two and a half months on the injured list in 2017 due to a stress fracture.  Still, Gray and German Marquez project as the top two members of the Rockies rotation going forward to 2020, as Kyle Freeland and Tyler Anderson have been respectively bedeviled by inconsistency and injuries this season.

Today’s outing will see Melville make his first Major League appearance since September 26, 2017.  The 29-year-old tossed 14 2/3 innings for the Reds, Twins, and Padres in 2016-17, and then went onto pitch in the Orioles’ farm system and in independent baseball until inking a minor league contract with the Rockies back in May.  Pitching in the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League, Melville has a 5.42 ERA and 2.2 HR/9 over 96 1/3 innings at Triple-A this season, though with an 8.8 K/9 and 2.35 K/BB rate.

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  1. acarneglia

    6 years ago

    Crap

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  2. dymez17

    6 years ago

    Leaves the Rockies without a elite pitcher

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    • nymetsking

      6 years ago

      lol

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    • Colorado Springs

      6 years ago

      German Marquez is chopped liver?

      Reply
  3. hiflew

    6 years ago

    2019 is not going to be a year to remember for Rockies fans. At least I hope it isn’t.

    Reply
  4. commentinggenius

    6 years ago

    RIP

    Reply
  5. flyfisher64

    6 years ago

    How did this happen?

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    • Cat Mando

      6 years ago

      Stress fracture…………… denverpost.com/2019/08/21/jon-grays-season-ends-le…

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      • hozie007

        6 years ago

        Read the article…still doesn’t say “how” it happened…..

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        • Cat Mando

          6 years ago

          hozie007….. To know how it happened you have yo understand what a stress fracture is.
          “Stress fractures occur when a small or moderate amount of force is applied to a bone repeatedly and over time.” Think about which foot is his plant foot being a right handed pitcher.
          They probably don’t even know the exact moment it happened as a stress fracture can start small with a small dull pain and then grow.

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        • Colorado Springs

          6 years ago

          He never had it “fixed” surgically in ’17. Just rested it. Hopefully this will fix it for a long time.

          Reply
  6. DarkSide830

    6 years ago

    James Shields is available

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    • PapiElf

      6 years ago

      James Shields + Coors Field = hundreds of home runs!

      Sounds like fun!!!

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      • DarkSide830

        6 years ago

        i mean, would he be worse then Melville? I have my doubts.

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    • jorge78

      6 years ago

      Sarcasm alert!

      Reply
  7. P N Protocol

    6 years ago

    Was he getting a foot massage?

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    • jdgoat

      6 years ago

      He forgot booties for the cryogenic chamber…

      Reply
    • DarkSide830

      6 years ago

      Carlos Correa is offended by this comment

      Reply
      • jorge78

        6 years ago

        I am offended by Carlos
        Correa’s injuries!

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        • DarkSide830

          6 years ago

          i agree. how dare he not work out his rib bones!

          Reply
  8. 377194

    6 years ago

    Great! As if the pitching wasn’t crappy enough before this.

    Reply
  9. hiflew

    6 years ago

    Replacing your ace with a guy that was on the Long Island Ducks at the start of the season is not a recipe for long term success. Or short term success. Or medium range success. Man this blows.

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    • hiflew

      6 years ago

      Although for one game apparently it can work just fine. Man, just when you think you know something, stuff like this happens.

      Reply
  10. jorge78

    6 years ago

    I sure hope MLB dumbs down
    the baseball next season so
    pitching can get back to
    normalcy…..

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  11. minoso9

    6 years ago

    Unfortunate end to this season for Gray. He has had a good year and is just entering his baseball prime. Easily the Rockies best pitcher this year. So let’s get on with the surgical procedure and have Gray ready for next year. The Rox will need all the pitching they can find.

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    • Colorado Springs

      6 years ago

      German Marquez has been the ace all year.

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