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Max Scherzer
B/T R/R · 6' 3" · 208 lb · born St. Louis, MO, USA · age 42 · draft 2006 rd 1 · played P 23 · MLB debut 2008-04-29
364 batters faced scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestone this season
3,500 career strikeouts — Wed, Jun 10 · night game vs. Philadelphia Phillies The scorecard → · The write-up →
Scout’s note
Max Scherzer is 42, born in St. Louis, and owns 3,557 career strikeouts across 501 games. In his last two MLB starts, he struck out 14 — the old machine still runs.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Scherzer here — The Buzz September 28, 2026 · August 31, 2026 · August 9, 2026 · July 28, 2026
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $3.00M
- Guaranteed
- $3.00M
- Term
- 1 yr
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $3.0M |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
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The Bureau on Max Scherzer
The scouting press, in their own words
Max Scherzer has 7 strikeouts today and is 4 away from topping Justin Verlander. Still pitching in the 7th up 4-1. Don’t you think he’d like to pass Verlander?
PLive Card of the Day Number 131: A 2019 Topps Allen & Ginter of Justin Verlander One of the most engaging side plots to this weekend's finale of the 2026 MLB season has emerged over the past few days, as Verlander and long-time rival Max Scherzer are each pushing to pitch. Both https://t.co/vi5SOsUssP
All-time strikeout leaders 8. Justin Verlander 3,554 9. Max Scherzer 3,550
Umpire favor
+0.6 net runs over 17 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →