Max Scherzer Quotations

We've had three years of success. We've never really been recognized this early. We've always been picked (low to start), and then we always went out and surprised everybody. Well, now somebody has said we should do well this year. . . . Obviously we have the opportunity to take it up a level, but it is on this year.

I used to have the worst head jerk, my hat would fly off sometimes. That's how violent I was. It was violent, real violent. I was so raw.

It's a funny game. Sometimes it's the little things that don't go your way. As a pitching staff, we are just going out there and try to throw up zeros because we know we want the next guy to go up and put up zeros. Everybody is trying to pull up each other.

For everyone coming back, for all the things we have going for this program - the talent, the makeup - you've got to feel that we have a shot to get to Omaha. It'd be taking this program up that big step, that next level. We want to do that. We want to do that. For Hunter and Culp, it's the same thing. You're not playing for the draft. You're playing for Omaha.

He's not the loudest kid out there, but you know when he goes out there he is going to compete. He's a leader because he's a leader on the field. He goes out there, does things and inspires people to do well. That's what he does.

For the time being Scherzer gives Washington a very nice rotation (on paper) with Stephen Strasburg, Jordan Zimmerman, Gio Gonzalez, and Doug Fister, with Tanner Roark — a five-win player with a .2.85 ERA in 2014 — presumably sliding into the bullpen.

The Washington Nationals‘ unexpected deal for free agent pitcher Max Scherzer is worth $210 million over seven years, according to two people with direct knowledge of the negotiations...

It has been calculated that one marginal win is worth $7 million and we can increase that by five percent each year to figure out the value the Nationals can expect to receive from Scherzer.

Instead, the Nationals will pay Scherzer $15 million per season, but do so for 14 years; essentially, they’ve deferred half of each season’s salary seven years into the future.

I'm aware of the luck in [BABIP], but at the same time, you can't directly influence it. You can just keep mixing your patterns, executing and locating, That's the human element of this game.