{"id":500345,"date":"2026-02-26T07:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500345\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:44:07","slug":"max-scherzer-blue-jays-reach-agreement-on-1-year-deal-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500345\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Scherzer, Blue Jays reach agreement on 1-year deal: reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Blue Jays and Max Scherzer have reached an agreement on a one-year deal worth $3 million US, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old Scherzer can earn another $10 million in performance bonuses.<\/p>\n<p>Scherzer, a two-time World Series champion and three-time Cy Young Award winner, played the 2025 season in Toronto on a one-year, $15.5 million contract.<\/p>\n<p>The right-hander had a 5-5 record in 17 starts, with a 5.19 earned-run average in his lone campaign with the Jays.<\/p>\n<p>He had a 3.77 ERA with 11 strikeouts in 14.1 innings across three starts in the post-season where Toronto fell to the Los Angeles Dodgers in seven games in the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Scherzer has 3,489 career strikeouts across 2,963 innings, good for 11th all time in Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Verlander is the only active pitcher ahead of Scherzer on the list, sitting in eighth with 3,553 strikeouts in 3,567.2 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-500345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}