Scherzer, Max
MLB’s PitchCom System Draws Mixed Reactions
Baseball and technology have always made for wary partners. For a five-year span in the 1930s, as radio became more popular, all three New York teams — the Yankees, Giants and Dodgers — banned live play-by-play of their games because they feared the new medium would reduce attendance. When the Chicago Cubs added lights to […]
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Mets Sweep Yankees in Subway Series
The final hit on Wednesday night bounced into the glove of Aaron Hicks, and of course he didn’t want it. Hicks, the Yankees’ left fielder, gathered Starling Marte’s game-winning single, held it for a while and then flung it aside like a piece of gum. A ball boy retrieved it and tossed it into the […]
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Max Scherzer Finishes Rehab Stint and Is Set to Rejoin Mets
HARTFORD, Conn. — An ace right-hander with 3,000 strikeouts and a Hall of Fame résumé took the mound at Citi Field on Wednesday afternoon. He fired eight shutout innings against a first-place team on his way to a victory. It lined up precisely with the Mets’ vision for their summer, except for one big detail. […]
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Max Scherzer Leads Mets to Double-Header Sweep
The easy choice, for Max Scherzer, would have been to start the first game of Tuesday’s doubleheader at Citi Field. Pitchers thrive on routine, and only the opening game had a scheduled time for the first pitch. Scherzer has a Hall of Fame résumé, and if he had insisted on the opener for his first […]
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‘It’s Not About Me’: Max Scherzer Bucks a System That Worked For Him
JUPITER, Fla. — Max Scherzer drives a Porsche. That shouldn’t be shocking. He’s a very talented and highly compensated professional athlete. Investment bankers, company executives and movie stars drive them, too. And M.L.B.’s billionaire club owners have mansions, jets and lavish artwork. Throughout his decorated career, Scherzer has signed two free agent contracts worth a […]
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M.L.B. Canceled Games. What Happens Now?
JUPITER, Fla. — On Tuesday, Major League Baseball and the players’ union failed to strike a new labor contract by the league’s self-imposed deadline. After nine straight days of face-to-face negotiations, M.L.B. presented what it considered its best and final offer of the talks. The union rejected it and just minutes after the deadline passed, […]
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With No Deadline Deal, M.L.B.’s Lockout Begins
M.L.B. has said it also wants to improve the competitive balance among teams but has proposed different ways to accomplish that than the union. Among its proposals, some of which have been rejected by the union: an N.B.A.-style lottery format for the first three picks in the draft that could help prevent so-called tanking, a […]
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M.L.B. Money Flows to Free Agents as Lockout Looms
The Thanksgiving leftovers are still in the fridge, and Max Scherzer is already on his way to the Mets. That alone proves that the baseball off-season, which tends to unfold at a plodding pace, has come alive. But is this a blizzard of spending, or merely a flurry? Is free agency now a winter wonderland […]
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Max Scherzer and the Mets Agree on Massive Three-Year Deal
After the Mets’ billionaire owner, Steven A. Cohen, flexed some of his financial might over the weekend with three new additions, he made his splashiest move yet. On Monday, the Mets and Max Scherzer, a three-time winner of the Cy Young Award, agreed to a record-setting deal that would pair him with a two-time winner […]
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