Well its official Max Scherzer is officially off the market.
And this marks another year where the Toronto Blue Jays have missed out on
another stud pitcher. This morning he signed a 7 year 210 million dollar deal
with the Washington Nationals.
Now as a Blue Jay fan this really irritates me, but did we
dodge a bullet? Let’s
look at the facts. He is a 30 year old fastball pitcher, He is a former CY
Young winning pitcher, He has posted 4 straight seasons of .600 + winning
percentages. All of these stats should sure enough have fans foaming at the
mouth for him. And they absolutely should he is a beast.
However
if we look at it from this standpoint it might help fans rest a little easier.
Max Scherzer will be making 15.7 million a year over the next 14 years, because
they did a deferred contract. So even though he is only committed to the team
for 7 years. That contract will count against the cap for the next 14. Now as a
Jays fan that is a lot to commit to an arm that may or may not have 5 years
left on it. People have to remember fastball pitchers tend to go downhill in
the north part of their 30s. Look at all time pitching great Randy Johnson his
career started to dwindle down around 34. Max will still have 3 years left
being paid as a number one guy and not putting up these numbers.
Hopefully
next year they can spend their money wisely and grab a decent not outrageously priced
ace pitcher to round out are pitching staff. But hey at least we aren’t stuck
for 210 million for one guy.
-Ace
-Ace
