
The Toronto Blue Jays have signed starting pitcher and future Hall of Famer Max Scherzer on Thursday. The contract is for one year and worth $15.5 million according to Daniel Chavkin of The Sporting News.
Scherzer is joining his seventh Major League Baseball team. He has previously pitched for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Detroit Tigers, Washington Nationals, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets and Texas Rangers.
For seven straight seasons from 2013 to 2019, Scherzer was an All-Star, and was an All-Star again in 2021. In 2013 with the Tigers, and 2016 and 2017 with the Nationals, Scherzer won a Cy Young Award.
Scherzer has led baseball in several categories. He led the Majors with 21 wins in 2013, the American League in wins with 18 in 2014, and the National League in wins with the Nationals (20 in 2016 and 18 in 2018). Scherzer also led the Major Leagues in shutouts (three with the Nationals in 2015 and one with the Nationals in 2018), and strikeouts (284 in 2016 and 300 in 2018), and the National League in strikeouts (268 in 2017).
Scherzer has won two World Series (2019 with Washington and 2023 with Texas). This past season with the Rangers, he had a record of two wins and four losses with an earned run average of 3.95. In nine starts, and 43 1/3 innings pitched, he gave up 40 hits, 19 earned runs, seven home runs and 10 walks to go along with 40 strikeouts and a WHIP (walks and hits per innings pitched) of 1.15. Scherzer’s wins came in a 4-0 Rangers win over the Kansas City Royals on June 23, and in a 2-1 Rangers win over the Chicago White Sox on July 25.