{"id":9955,"date":"2015-01-19T00:44:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T05:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9955"},"modified":"2015-01-19T00:54:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T05:54:35","slug":"max-scherzer-reaches-seven-year-deal-with-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/01\/19\/max-scherzer-reaches-seven-year-deal-with-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Scherzer reaches seven-year deal with Nationals"},"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 \/>\nThe Washington Nationals have reached an agreement with free agent pitcher Max Scherzer on a seven-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Scherzer, 30, joins a team already thick at pitcher though the team has a decision to make on the futures of Doug Fister and Jordan Zimmermann &#8211; one of which could be moved prior to Opening Day.<\/p>\n<p>The new deal for Scherzer would run though his age-36 season and is for one year longer than the Detroit Tigers offered him during the 2014 season. He responded going 18-5 with a 3.15 ERA and a 1.18 WHIP.<\/p>\n<p>While the numbers for Scherzer have not been released he is expected to get over $180 million according to FOX Sports&#8217; Ken Rosenthal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Source: Scherzer seven-year deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nationals?src=hash\">#Nationals<\/a> will be for more than $180M.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/557050387962683392\">January 19, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For now he joins a rotation with Stephen Strasburg, Zimmerman, Fister and Gio Gonzalez. Tanner Roark who won 15 games and had a 2.85 ERA would be pushed out of the Nationals rotation for now.<\/p>\n<p>Already the favorites to win the National League East, the Nationals have found a way to get even stronger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Nationals have reached an agreement with free agent pitcher Max Scherzer on a seven-year deal. Scherzer, 30, joins a team already thick at pitcher though the team has a decision to make on the futures of Doug Fister and Jordan Zimmermann &#8211; one of which could be moved prior to Opening Day. The [&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":[503,375,501,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-max-scherzer","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955","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=9955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9958,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955\/revisions\/9958"}],"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=9955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9955"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}