(In all likelihood, Scherzer probably went to sleep Sunday night and picked up the negotiations the next day, but at the time it felt like the whole thing was collapsing in the most Mets way one could imagine). Alas, as we all know, it did not, and he agreed to a record-breaking three year, $130m deal to be a New York Met on Monday. It seemed like Morosi and Rosenthal simply jumped the gun, and some very LOLMets stuff was about to go down. Nary an update from anyone, one that was substantial anyway. That is, until Sunday night, when Jon Morosi (followed by Ken Rosenthal) tweeted out that the Mets were moving closer to a deal with Scherzer. The options were just growing thinner and thinner, and it still never felt like Scherzer was actually going to come. The Mets, at that point, had an increasing need to sign Scherzer. Kevin Gausman went to Toronto, and Jon Gray added to the Rangers spending spree, two names the Mets seemed keen on. Max Scherzer was never coming to the Mets! At 37 years old! Leaving the Dodgers! For a team that won 78 games the year prior! It seemed impossible.Īnd yet, option after option for starting pitching went off the board. They set their sights on one pitcher, above all the others, and it seemed like the wildest of wild goose chases: they wanted Literally Max Scherzer.
However, as Thanksgiving and Black Friday came and went, not one of the pitchers would be taking their talents to Queens in 2021.
There were pitchers to sign, of course, and the Mets were in on mostly all of them. 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. 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. 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. As unbelievable and straight up fictional as it sounds, he is.
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