Yep, we got him.
$15.5M deal for 1 year. No deferrals. Pending a physical.
Max Scherzer will be the first HOF lock on the team in a looooong time (sorry, Vlad doesn't qualify yet). Seems like the last one was Roy Halladay. Max is a lock with 3 Cy's, 216 wins, 5 more times in the top 5 for Cy voting. For such a great pitcher kind of odd the Jays will be his 7th team. 7 years in Washington, 5 Detroit - he will go in the HOF as one of those 2. Drafted by the Cardinals out of high school (43rd round) but didn't sign. Arizona took him later in the first round (11th overall) way back in 2006 - 3 picks later the Jays took Travis Snider who many here will remember. Max isn't the best of that round though - Clayton Kershaw leads with 79.4 bWAR, then Max at 75.4, then Evan Longoria at 58.6 - all taken in the first 11 picks. Brandon Morrow was the 5th pick (by Seattle).
BR projects Max at a 6-5 record over 97 IP 3.71 ERA. FG Steamer has him at a 2.1 fWAR over 128 IP 3.97 ERA, ZiPS has him at 1.4 WAR over 107 IP with a 103 ERA+. I'd say the rotation is now set with Gausman-Berrios-Bassitt-Scherzer-Francis and a pen of Hoffman-Green-Garcia-Swanson-Sandlin-Little-Rodriguez and the final slot a big battle for Nance-Pop-Burr-and whoever else is in camp.
As others have said in the other thread - he is one of the best to ever pitch here, should he be healthy enough to. In HOF: Halladay (earned it here)-Niekro (0 wins here sadly)-Clemens* (2 pitcher triple crowns here in 2 years, worthy of HOF except by PED moralizing writers)-Jack Morris (ugh) - damn good guys who were close to HOF careers - Dave Stieb (should've won a few Cy's, deserves more HOF consideration imo)-David Wells (53 WAR, 15 of that here)-Jimmy Key and tons of others who were damn good for a few years (Hentgen especially with a Cy here, Carpenter who won a Cy after being developed here).
$15.5M deal for 1 year. No deferrals. Pending a physical.
Max Scherzer will be the first HOF lock on the team in a looooong time (sorry, Vlad doesn't qualify yet). Seems like the last one was Roy Halladay. Max is a lock with 3 Cy's, 216 wins, 5 more times in the top 5 for Cy voting. For such a great pitcher kind of odd the Jays will be his 7th team. 7 years in Washington, 5 Detroit - he will go in the HOF as one of those 2. Drafted by the Cardinals out of high school (43rd round) but didn't sign. Arizona took him later in the first round (11th overall) way back in 2006 - 3 picks later the Jays took Travis Snider who many here will remember. Max isn't the best of that round though - Clayton Kershaw leads with 79.4 bWAR, then Max at 75.4, then Evan Longoria at 58.6 - all taken in the first 11 picks. Brandon Morrow was the 5th pick (by Seattle).
BR projects Max at a 6-5 record over 97 IP 3.71 ERA. FG Steamer has him at a 2.1 fWAR over 128 IP 3.97 ERA, ZiPS has him at 1.4 WAR over 107 IP with a 103 ERA+. I'd say the rotation is now set with Gausman-Berrios-Bassitt-Scherzer-Francis and a pen of Hoffman-Green-Garcia-Swanson-Sandlin-Little-Rodriguez and the final slot a big battle for Nance-Pop-Burr-and whoever else is in camp.
As others have said in the other thread - he is one of the best to ever pitch here, should he be healthy enough to. In HOF: Halladay (earned it here)-Niekro (0 wins here sadly)-Clemens* (2 pitcher triple crowns here in 2 years, worthy of HOF except by PED moralizing writers)-Jack Morris (ugh) - damn good guys who were close to HOF careers - Dave Stieb (should've won a few Cy's, deserves more HOF consideration imo)-David Wells (53 WAR, 15 of that here)-Jimmy Key and tons of others who were damn good for a few years (Hentgen especially with a Cy here, Carpenter who won a Cy after being developed here).
