ARLINGTON, Texas – I know someday we will think predominantly, if not exclusively, about Max Scherzer at his best. When his career becomes legacy, it will all be glowing. That is the future for a man who is often introduced alongside a reference to Cooperstown.
When he is older, when he is no longer capable of throwing 95 mph — which he still very much can — we will talk about the larger-than-life persona, the Mad Max of it all, without caveats.
Now, the conclusion should not be that Max Scherzer can’t hack it in October. Before that start for the Mets, he had a career 3.22 ERA in the postseason, including a heroic effort in Game 7 of the 2019 World Series to bring a championship to D.C. “Really, it started not too long after the injury,” Bochy said a couple of days ago about Scherzer’s lobbying efforts to return to the rotation.
It’s an assessment on which he repeatedly doubled down. His catcher, Jonah Heim, reiterated it as well, saying, “If the stuff is not there, then you're kind of worried. But stuff was there.”
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