{"id":76991,"date":"2025-08-17T19:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T19:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/76991\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T19:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T19:01:10","slug":"jon-gray-placed-on-il-with-thoracic-outlet-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/76991\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Gray Placed On IL With Thoracic Outlet Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Righty Jon Gray<\/a> has been placed on the 15-day injured list, according to an announcement from the Rangers earlier this morning. A diagnosis wasn\u2019t announced alongside that IL placement, but Shawn McFarland of the Dallas Morning News<\/a> was among those to relay that (according to club manager Bruce Bochy) Gray is suffering from Thoracic outlet syndrome. There\u2019s no timetable for Gray\u2019s return to play at this point, but Bochy noted that he\u2019ll \u201cmiss some time\u201d due to the issue. Right-hander Caleb Boushley<\/a> was recalled to replace Gray on the active roster.<\/p>\n

TOS is certainly a worrisome diagnosis for Gray, though it\u2019s one that comes with a wide variety of potential outcomes. Some of the more notable examples of players who were sidelined by TOS, such as Stephen Strasburg<\/a> and Chris Archer<\/a>, were never able to fully recover from the ailment and saw the issue bring an end to their big league careers, even after surgery. On the other hand, however, Gray\u2019s teammate Merrill Kelly<\/a> underwent surgery due to TOS following his age-31 season and has been quite successful in the years since then with a 3.64 ERA and 3.86 FIP in 128 starts. Jesse Dougherty of the Washington Post<\/a> discussed the medical differences between the situations Kelly and Strasburg faced back in 2023, and interested readers are encouraged to read that piece in full.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s impossible to say at this point what the news means for Gray, but it seems unlikely he\u2019ll pitch again this year. Selected third overall by the Rockies back in 2013, the veteran of 11 MLB seasons has spent each of the past four years in Texas. He served as a solid back-of-the-rotation arm for the Rangers from 2022-24, with a 4.16 ERA and 4.05 FIP in 387 1\/3 innings of work, but this year he\u2019s surrendered a 7.71 ERA in 14 innings of work across six long relief outings after missing most of the season due to a forearm fracture suffered after he was struck by a comebacker during Spring Training.<\/p>\n

The news of Gray\u2019s TOS diagnosis adds a new wrinkle to the club\u2019s decision to place the right-hander on waivers last week, which was only reported on after he went unclaimed<\/a> last night. The right-hander is owed an additional $3.1MM for the remainder of the 2025 season, and given that the Rangers are known to be just over the first luxury tax threshold it was hardly surprising that the club wanted to see if there were any takers on that remaining chunk of Gray\u2019s salary. There\u2019s no reason to assume that the Rangers knew about Gray\u2019s diagnosis before placing him on waivers, of course, but it\u2019s possible that the specter of an injury causing his recent poor performance scared some would-be suitors off from placing a claim.<\/p>\n

Gray is slated to hit free agency following the 2025 season. He figured to be a decent veteran arm for a club in need of a back-of-the-rotation starter or swing man this winter, but now it\u2019s impossible to say what\u2019s in store for Gray until we have more information about his status, including whether he\u2019ll require surgery and how long his recovery timetable looks like. Of course, the possibility of retirement can\u2019t be completed ignored for a veteran facing notable health challenges who will turn 34 in November, but Gray has given no indication to this point about his plans for 2026 and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Righty Jon Gray has been placed on the 15-day injured list, according to an announcement from the Rangers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,46891,48,20307,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-76991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-caleb-boushley","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-jon-gray","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}