Max Scherzer

Obviously, they have the young guys, and let's assume they keep the young guys.

Scooble's name, you know, that's going to be the start of the winter, and it sounds like Boris is going to want him to be signed, sealed, and delivered right after Thanksgiving, right at the deadline, similar to Max Scherzer, before the last lockout.

I've talked about for a couple of years, can they do what the Astros did many moons ago with bringing Cole in right when he was ready to take off and kind of acquire that young pitcher and then get the best years out of it, maybe with some control.

You've talked about a couple of these things.

I think it's going to be, even through Thanksgiving, I think it's going to be wild.

Well, we saw a lot of action five years ago, too, right before the last lockout.

The Mets made a ton of moves that November with Max Scherzer, as you mentioned, Charlie Marte, Eduardo Escobar, Mark Canna.

I believe those were all pre-lockout moves that they made.

No, because I knew.

Damn, Scherzer, was

he there

too? He was.

What he's getting at is clicks.

No, because I knew.

No, well, Max Scherzer saw some clicks in the Jays'

room.

06, yeah.

Kirsch, Scherzer, Lincecum, Ian Kennedy was there, Longo, Justin Turner.

Or is it either the Upton brothers? No.

Justin was 05.

Probably the

best team to never win it.

JV, Scherzer, Pfister, Feldman.

Yeah.

Signing Derek Scouble to a deal that would shatter the Yoshinobu Yamamoto record for highest pitcher guarantee, $325 million.

It would probably break Max Scherzer's highest average annual value of $43.3 million.

It would break the Garrett Cole guarantee for longest or for highest guarantee on a contract of less than 10 years.

It would be prohibitive to building it into a complete roster.

He's got a little bit of that, uh, winking at the camera, blowing a kiss to the camera type of thing.

But I think the Max Scherzer this year, like he said, all of those records, top 10 strikeouts.

And on one hand, Scherzer would say, well, it's, I wanted to get the win, blah, blah, blah.

And on the other hand, He's waxing poetic about Walter Johnson, who last pitched

So the good news is you have a few guys who it's not too hard to squint and twist your head and see if any of them could win a Cy Young It's kind of a matter of, okay, now who could potentially go out and actually do it? But again, it's not always that easy.

The Tigers have had Verlander, Scherzer, Schubel.

They have not been strangers to the Cy Young race in recent history.

It is worth remembering.

The only way that can happen, though, is you need a team or multiple teams to make a big enough offer for him to accept.

Like Max Scherzer was a Scott Boris client.

He signed with us, as we all recall, before the lockout.

But it wouldn't have happened if the Mets didn't make that offer.

I keep that in mind, but I never felt he dominated on the level of some of those other guys.

He ends up signing a seven year, $161 million deal and AAV of 23 per season.

The other comp is Max Scherzer.

And I'm not talking about Mets, Max Scherzer.

Bryce Harper wants an extension.

He wants whatever system's gonna let him get an extension that goes into like 44, right? Aaron Judge, Max Scherzer, Garrett Cole, on and on and on.

Name prominent guys who made a lot or are making a lot of money.

They just want systems in place that make them more money.