{"id":2254023,"date":"2026-01-28T06:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2254023"},"modified":"2026-01-28T06:08:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:08:27","slug":"max-scherzer-predicted-to-surprisingly-land-with-new-al-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/max-scherzer-predicted-to-surprisingly-land-with-new-al-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Scherzer Predicted To Surprisingly Land With New AL Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-analytics-datalayer-category=\"ArticleContentDetails\" wp_automatic_readability=\"68.588838999359\">\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ????><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ????><\/p>\n<p>Max Scherzer\u2019s free agency could extend into the season, per reports, as teams weigh his veteran presence against durability concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Bleacher Report\u2019s Zachary D. Rymer pointed to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/teams\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals\/\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> as a compelling surprise option.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to Ken Rosenthal and Will Sammon of The Athletic, the latest on Max Scherzer is that he could pull a Roger Clemens and wait until the middle of the 2026 season to pick a team,\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25367407-surprise-landing-spots-framber-valdez-justin-verlander-and-top-mlb-free-agents\">Rymer wrote on Monday<\/a>. \u201cThat would make a lot of sense for him, as the last two seasons have proved him to be well past his peak durability. The question, then, is which team could be in a position to both need him and be able to entice him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Royals stand out because, while they\u2019re likely to contend on the strength of their starting pitching, their rotation also resembles a house of cards,\u201d Rymer continued. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeth Lugo and Michael Wacha are in their mid-30s, and Cole Ragans and Kris Bubic both ran into major injury trouble last year. Plus, Scherzer is a Missouri native. He\u2019s more so associated with St. Louis, but he played college ball at the University of Missouri, about a two-hour drive from Kansas City.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"nesn-in-content-ad\" wp_automatic_readability=\"32\">\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Pedro Martinez &amp; Dennis Eckersley's Advice For The Red Sox\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/show\/41J2lMBlL2znUEwwHmBm36?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Scherzer contributed quality starts for the American League champion Toronto Blue Jays in limited action during 2025 despite age-related limitations.<\/p>\n<p>In a Hall of Fame-track career since 2008, Scherzer has over 3,300 strikeouts, three Cy Young Awards, and a World Series title.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source nesn.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Scherzer\u2019s free agency could extend into the season, per reports, as teams weigh his veteran presence against durability concerns. Bleacher Report\u2019s Zachary D. Rymer pointed to the Kansas City Royals as a compelling surprise option. \u201cAccording to Ken Rosenthal and Will Sammon of The Athletic, the latest on Max Scherzer is that he could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2254024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[376100],"class_list":["post-2254023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-max-scherzer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Max-Scherzer-Predicted-To-Surprisingly-Land-With-New-AL-Team.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254025,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254023\/revisions\/2254025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}