Absolutely. You can definitely play him as a value piece. All you really need is a way to play lands from the graveyard or a bunch of draw and or mill paired with play an additional land effects (or both, both is always good), then just have a handful of great
landfall/sacrifice/graveyard payoffs and go crazy. There are really endless directions you can take this deck, many of which are still pretty powerful, even without the combos that Gitrog is best known for. You could even probably play Gitrog voltron and have a decent time.