“I got a text from [Max] Scherzer last night,” Yan Gomes told reporters after he was traded to the Washington Nationals from the Cleveland Indians earlier this month, “and that to me felt like it spoke to the whole organization and the kind of place I’m going into. He seemed really excited, and I just told him I’m ready to get working.”
“I had a friend who was texting me who [asked], ‘Hey, are you guys getting Yan Gomes?’” Scherzer explained when he was asked about the conversation with one of his two new catchers.