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Max Scherzer is scheduled to beryllium the Toronto Blue Jays' starting pitcher connected Wednesday erstwhile they look the Guardians successful Cleveland. He past appeared successful a large league crippled connected March 29 but exited aboriginal with thumb inflammation successful his throwing hand.
40-year-old hasn’t pitched since March owed to thumb inflammation successful throwing hand
The Canadian Press
· Posted: Jun 23, 2025 5:34 PM EDT | Last Updated: 13 minutes ago
Mad Max is back.
Max Scherzer is scheduled to beryllium the Toronto Blue Jays' starting pitcher connected Wednesday erstwhile they look the Guardians successful Cleveland. Blue Jays manager John Schneider confirmed that Scherzer would instrumentality to the mound aft Toronto's 4-2 nonaccomplishment to the Chicago White Sox connected Sunday.
"That's a huge, immense summation to us, you know?" said Schneider. "It's Max Scherzer.
"I'll instrumentality that immoderate time of the week."
The 40-year-old surefire Hall of Famer signed a one-year, $15.5-million declaration with Toronto connected Feb. 4.
However, Scherzer lone pitched 3 innings for the Blue Jays connected March 29, allowing 2 runs connected 3 hits. He near that crippled aboriginal with thumb inflammation successful his throwing manus earlier being placed connected the injured database the adjacent day.
Scherzer had a bullpen league earlier Sunday aft 2 promising rehab starts with triple-A Buffalo past week. Schneider said Sunday's league was a productive workout for Scherzer, that included simulating conditions against the Guardians' potent lineup.
"I deliberation that getting to 75 pitches successful his past commencement is simply a bully thing, and we've got to conscionable show it arsenic helium goes," said Schneider. "The information that he's feeling bully throwing his stuff, helium knows his worldly is wherever it should be.
"Really, truly excited to person him back."
Scherzer is simply a three-time Cy Young Award victor arsenic the champion pitcher successful his league and an eight-time all-star. He has a 216-112 grounds implicit his 18-year MLB career, with a beingness 3.16 earned-run mean and 3,408 strikeouts.
"Hopefully he's backmost with america the remainder of the year," said chap starter Chris Bassitt. "It solidifies our rotation a batch much wherever the bullpen doesn't person to beryllium arsenic relied upon arsenic it has been.
"Hopefully we get Max backmost to what helium usually does, and past instrumentality immoderate unit disconnected of [Jose] Berrios, [Kevin Gausman] and I having to devour innings and things similar that."
Eric Lauer volition start for Toronto connected Tuesday and Gausman volition transportation connected Thursday. The Blue Jays are 4-6 successful their past 10 games, sitting 3rd successful the American League East but holding the 2nd chaotic paper berth.
Cleveland is simply a fractional crippled retired of the 3rd chaotic paper spot, held by the Seattle Mariners.
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