{"id":9951,"date":"2015-01-18T17:52:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T22:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9951"},"modified":"2015-01-18T17:52:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T22:52:19","slug":"max-scherzer-in-talks-with-teams-about-seven-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/01\/18\/max-scherzer-in-talks-with-teams-about-seven-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Scherzer in talks with teams about seven year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/maxscherzer.jpg\" alt=\"maxscherzer\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5981\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/maxscherzer.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/maxscherzer-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nAfter turning down a six year offer from the Tigers during the season, free agent pitcher Max Scherzer reportedly has been contacted by teams about seven year deals.<\/p>\n<p>Scherzer&#8217;s agent Scott Boras would love to get his client even more than the $144 million that was offered by the Tigers in season. <\/p>\n<p>While it is surprising that Scherzer has had to wait so long to get a deal, it looks like one my finally be coming to fruition with the Nationals and others in contact according to CBS Sports&#8217; Jon Heyman.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>scherzer talking to a couple teams about 7-year deal, nats among them.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeymanCBS\/status\/556931119178727424\">January 18, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Scherzer won the Cy Young in 2013 and finished last season with an 18-5 record to go with a 3.15 ERA and a 1.18 WHIP across 33 starts. The Tigers cannot be ruled out from re-signing Scherzer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After turning down a six year offer from the Tigers during the season, free agent pitcher Max Scherzer reportedly has been contacted by teams about seven year deals. Scherzer&#8217;s agent Scott Boras would love to get his client even more than the $144 million that was offered by the Tigers in season. While it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[66,503,375,501,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-detroit-tigers","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-max-scherzer","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9952,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951\/revisions\/9952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9951"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}