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My Take
What fascinates me about Max Scherzer is not the trophy case, though three Cy Young Awards would be enough for most careers. It is the theater of his intensity. Few pitchers have ever made competitiveness itself so visible; you can read his refusal to leave a game from the parking lot. I also admire the arc: a kid from St. Louis who stayed home for college at Missouri, then willed himself into the conversation of generational pitchers. Plenty of athletes have talent. Scherzer treats every start like a personal insult to be answered, and that is why hitters still dread him deep into his forties.
Overview
Maxwell Martin Scherzer (born July 27, 1984), nicknamed "Mad Max", is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Detroit Tigers, Washington Nationals, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets, and Texas Rangers.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Max Scherzer
- Name (Japanese)
- マックス・シャーザー
- Reading
- まっくす・しゃーざー
- Born
- July 27, 1984 (age 41)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Rat
- Origin
- St. Louis, Missouri, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 190 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- professional baseball player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Parkway Central High School
- University
- University of Missouri
Awards & achievements
- 2013 Cy Young Award
- 2016 Cy Young Award
- 2017 Cy Young Award
- 2013 Major League Baseball All-Star
- 2014 Major League Baseball All-Star
- 2015 Major League Baseball All-Star
- 2016 Major League Baseball All-Star
- 2017 Major League Baseball All-Star
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.