Perched atop the Shake Shack stand beyond the right field fence, a picture of Max Scherzer still watches over all that happens at Nationals Park. His eyes — one brown, one blue — still stare out with the intensity he displayed every day since his arrival in Washington in 2015.
So on a sleepy, soggy Sunday morning at Nationals Park, two days after the trade deadline closed and eight Washington veterans — including Scherzer — departed for other teams, Scherzer’s visage stared out at the Nationals’ future. He saw right-hander Josiah Gray, one of the prospects received in a trade with the Dodgers, warming up in shallow right field.