{"id":632626,"date":"2026-04-27T20:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/632626\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T20:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:33:07","slug":"blue-jays-place-max-scherzer-on-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/632626\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Place Max Scherzer On Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Blue Jays announced Monday that right-hander Max Scherzer<\/a> has been placed on the 15-day injured list due to tendinitis in his right forearm and inflammation in his left ankle. A timetable for his return to the roster has not yet been provided. Right-hander Chase Lee<\/a> is up from Triple-A Buffalo to take Scherzer\u2019s spot on the roster.<\/p>\n

Scherzer signed a one-year, $3MM deal with the Jays during spring training. At the time the deal was reported, early indications were that Toronto would build the 41-year-old up slowly after an injury-plagued 2025 campaign. Injuries elsewhere on the staff perhaps accelerated that trajectory. Jos\u00e9 Berr\u00edos<\/a> was diagnosed with a stress fracture in his elbow. Trey Yesavage<\/a> opened the season on the injured list due to a shoulder impingement. Cody Ponce<\/a> tore his ACL. Shane Bieber<\/a> has yet to pitch due to elbow inflammation. He\u2019s on the 60-day IL.<\/p>\n

Things went well in Scherzer\u2019s season debut. He tossed six innings, held the Rockies to a run on four hits and a walk, and sat 93.4 mph with his four-seamer \u2014 right in line with last year\u2019s 93.6 mph average. It\u2019s been mostly downhill from there. Scherzer does have one other quality start among his five appearances this year \u2014 two runs in six innings against the D-backs on April 18 \u2014 but he fanned only one batter in that outing. Overall, since that encouraging start to the season, he\u2019s pitched a total of 12 innings and been rocked for 19 runs in 12 2\/3 innings. His average fastball has clocked in under 93 mph in three of those four appearances (sitting 92.8 mph overall in that span).<\/p>\n

At one point during spring training, there were ongoing questions about how the Jays would find innings for their growing stock of starting pitchers. Toronto had eight starter-caliber arms \u2014 Yesavage, Bieber, Ponce, Scherzer, Berr\u00edos, Kevin Gausman<\/a>, Dylan Cease<\/a> and Eric Lauer<\/a> \u2014 but that supply has thinned to the point where GM Ross Atkins signed Patrick Corbin<\/a> to bring another arm into the fold. Yesavage and Berr\u00edos appear set to return soon, but the days of a rotation \u201csurplus\u201d in Toronto feel like a distant memory.<\/p>\n

Scherzer\u2019s trip to the IL comes as he\u2019s just one strikeout shy of 3500 in his career. He\u2019s also only 18 1\/3 innings from reaching 3000 innings in his career. He\u2019d be just the 139th pitcher to ever reach 3000 innings, and he currently sits 11th all-time in strikeouts. If he can get back to the mound and pitch any meaningful number of innings with reasonable efficacy, he could climb as high as ninth all time before long. Scherzer currently trails Walter Johnson by 10 strikeouts for tenth on the all-time list, and he\u2019s only 45 behind Gaylord Perry for No. 9 all-time.<\/p>\n

Toronto is expected to reinstate Yesavage from the injured list tomorrow, and Sportsnet\u2019s Ben Nicholson-Smith reported<\/a> yesterday that Berr\u00edos is slated to throw around 75 pitches in a rehab start that same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jays announced Monday that right-hander Max Scherzer has been placed on the 15-day injured list due…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,14575,82],"class_list":["post-632626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-max-scherzer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632626","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=632626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}