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Max Scherzer Blue Jays Contract for 3 times Cy Young winner

Max Scherzer Blue Jays Contract for 3 times Cy Young winner

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The last chapter of Max Scerzer in his career in the Hall of Fame will take place in Canada.

Scherzer, the three -time Cy Young winner who turns 41 in July, He agreed For a year, $ 15.5 million hire with the Toronto Blue Jays, their fifth team in the last five seasons. MLB Network was the first to report that Scherzer joined the tiles.

Scherzer won his second World Series title in 2023 after an exchange sent him from the New York Mets to the Texas Rangers, but he needed back surgery after that year and limited himself to nine openings in 2024. Even When it is healthy, it is not the block jacket who struck out between 231 and 300 batters in eight complete seasons that cover 2012 to 2021.

And it probably does not address the way a 2013 Cy Young Award for the Detroit Tigers and two more with Washington Nationals in 2016 and 2017.

However, even a Scherzer Diminshed is still effective; He published an effectiveness of 3.95 in its nine openings last year, and an effectiveness of 3.02 and 1.03 whips more than 42 started with the METS in 2022-23. And cling to a team of toronto pitchers suddenly with an enviable depth.

It will be located somewhere behind the right -handed Kevin Gausman and José Berríos and will meet with former Mets teammate Chris Bassitt. The promising young Bowden Francis, who ended The 2024 strong seasonProbably complete the rotation, allowing Yariel Rodríguez to assume a swing role again.

And although the right Jeffman, signed with a three -year contract and $ 33 million earlier this month, had designs possibly at the beginning, the addition of Scherzer probably Boleta to the former Phillie to the role of Closer.

Scherzer remains on a path similar to late from late as former Tigres teammate Justin Verlanderwho signed a similar annual agreement of $ 43.3 million with the METS after Scherzer and this year joined the San Francisco giants in a one -year agreement of $ 15 million.

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