It's a Good Name for You: the Max Scherzer thread

Is this common knowledge? I never knew it: he has heterochromia iridum, meaning his eyes aren't the same colour.

http://beckett-www.s3.amazonaws.com/news/news-content/uploads/2015/01/ScherzerSC2008.jpg

If he'd been on the '69 Pilots, he would have had an undoubtedly cruel nickname.

i think it's common knowledge around these parts -- he has the excellent nickname "Blue Eye" apparently, in addition to the more common "Mad Max". the former name is real Bond villainish.

11 years ago, on the day Max was called up to the bigs, felicity (arguably the best contributor to I Love Baseball) wrote:

Max Scherzer petrified 13 straight batters with his deadly gaze!

Difficulty: 8
Attacks: Pitch 1d3, Petrification

--You behold Max Scherzer . . .
--You are terrified by his 2-color eyes, and cannot move . . .
--You cannot see the release point . . .
--You hear Max Scherzer's fastball hissing!
--You have become a statue.

when will the 2008 Arizona Diamondbacks come back to earth?

so my advice young clem, is to stick around, maybe catch up on the archives.

Sorry for the duress and inconvenience caused by my redundant post.

Scherzer and Strasburg for their careers:

                     ERA	WHIP	K/9	BB/9	H/9	HR/9
Max Scherzer         3.20	1.092	10.6	 2.4	7.4	 1.0
Stephen Strasburg    3.17	1.086	10.6	 2.4	7.4	 0.9

Uncanny.

I'm curious to see how Strasburg does in his 30s. There are quite a few power pitchers whose inconsistencies seem to be tamed in their late 20s and their prime production continues well into their mid to late 30s even to their 40s with a few.

I lump Max in with that class of pitcher with preternatural calm and a murderous gaze, liable to go off and choke somebody to death if their control slips for a second. Kenny Rogers and Kevin Brown are two I can think of -- I'm sure there are others.

https://s.hdnux.com/photos/71/41/13/15078136/9/rawImage.jpg

lol yes

14 K in 7 innings against the Yankees. (99 pitches, but still in there.)

max scherzer is 0-for-45 this season with zero walks

he does have two sac bunts and a sac fly

gonna reach 3000 K in his next start

absolutely lights-out since being traded

is his deal with washington the best huge contract ever?

if you asked me how many pitchers are there with 3000 Ks i would've guessed more than 19. like at least 30.

anyway scherzer is #19

You could also track his game on another thread...80 pitches, two more innings.

Damn. A perfect game, 3,000th K, and an immaculate inning would have been a pretty good start.

Lowest ERA in 1st 8 appearances with a team, all starts (single season since ER official in both leagues, 1913):

2021 Max Scherzer, LAD: 0.88
1998 Randy Johnson, HOU: 1.00
1984 Phil Niekro, NYY: 1.04

— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) September 12, 2021

I really had no idea the "immaculate inning" -- nine pitches, nine strikes, three strikeouts -- was so rare. scherzer joined sandy koufax and chris sale as the only pitchers in history with three such innings in their career

I'm the only person on here who pays the least bit of attention to this tabulation (I won't call it a stat), but Scherzer moved ahead of Kershaw into 4th place on Baseball Reference's Cy Young Share list:

1. Roger Clemens (7 wins) 7.66
2. Randy Johnson (5 wins) 6.50
3. Greg Maddux (4 wins) 4.92
4. Max Scherzer (3 wins) 4.61
5. Clayton Kershaw (3 wins) 4.58
6. Steve Carlton (4 wins) 4.29
7. Pedro Martinez (3 wins) 4.26
8. Justin Verlander (2 wins) 4.21
9. Tom Seaver (3 wins) 3.85
10. Jim Palmer (3 wins) 3.57

Two two will be there forever, probably, but Scherzer may pass Maddux for third.

Two two = top two

Thought “two two” was some weird nick name I’d never heard before!

lol

Max Scherzer has "rattled some with his tough negotiating style" over the past few days https://t.co/hyhg976Erv pic.twitter.com/w54vrb88Ny

— SNY (@SNYtv) March 1, 2022

oblique strain, out 6-8 weeks

Dog bites man, man bites dog, Rafi bites Max.

https://www.mlb.com/news/max-scherzer-gets-dog-bite-on-throwing-hand

Verlander out for almost three weeks, pitches 5 no-hit innings with a walk and 9 strikeouts. Sixteen days between starts for Scherzer, 6 perfect innings with 9 strikeouts. Old guys need their rest to get by.

Terrible news for the Texas #Rangers:
Max Scherzer has a low-grade strain of the teres major muscle in his right shoulder that ends his season.

— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) September 13, 2023

Dodging the Casas rematch. Between this & Verlander vs the A’s Steve Cohen’s step is lighter today.

Will be joining Kershaw:

https://www.mlb.com/news/max-scherzer-back-surgery-on-herniated-disc

If he'd stayed healthy the past few years, I guess he would have hit 250 wins and 4,000 strikeouts. Doesn't really affect anything else, but too bad.