Max Scherzer is a Met.
As unbelievable and straight up fictional as it sounds, he is.
Scherzer and his seemingly omnipresent agent, Scott Boras, were on Zoom yesterday with new General Manager Billy Eppler, kinda sorta Team President Sandy Alderson and owner Steve Cohen, officially announcing Scherzer’s arrival in Queens.
It sounds made up, truly. The Mets had to go above and beyond to get Scherzer, as any player of his caliber on the free agent market would require, and it took some real guts to even try it. They had obvious holes in their rotation, with Marcus Stroman and Noah Syndergaard becoming free agents and leaving the organization, and a myriad of injuries to basically every pitcher not named Stroman last season saw the Mets rotation depth fall apart pretty quickly.