Max Scherzer is coming again for a nineteenth season.
The three-time Cy Younger Award winner has agreed to a deal to return to the Blue Jays, The Submit’s Jon Heyman confirmed. Phrases of the settlement will not be clear.
Scherzer, 41, informed The Athletic in January that he was “wholesome and able to signal at any second if sure groups name” however was keen to attend till Opening Day to make his choice.
The best-hander now heads again to Toronto, the place he pitched final season.
Scherzer went 5-5 with a 5.19 ERA in 17 begins in the course of the common season, however pitched properly over three begins within the postseason.
He memorably received Sport 4 of the American League Championship Sequence — jawing on the mound with supervisor John Schneider — to remain within the sport earlier than finishing 5 2/3 innings of two-run ball.
The eight-time All-Star made two extra appearances within the World Sequence, beginning Sport 7. He went the primary 4 1/3 frames, hanging out three and holding a vaunted Dodgers lineup to only one run.
Scherzer made clear after the ultimate sport of the Fall Basic, which the Blue Jays misplaced in heartbreaking style, that he was not accomplished pitching.
“The one factor I can say is it’s going to take a while to present a full reply to that however there isn’t any manner that was my final pitch,” Scherzer informed reporters. “That loss is so robust since you’re so near all people. This workforce had that closeness, had that camaraderie. We had that zeal not just for the sport however for one another.”
Toronto, in its efforts to get again to the World Sequence, has been lively this offseason. It has added pitchers Dylan Stop, Cody Ponce and Tyler Rogers to bolster the rotation and bullpen.
