{"id":603972,"date":"2026-03-03T17:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/603972\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T17:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:44:15","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-max-scherzer-says-he-will-be-ready-for-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/603972\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays\u2019 Max Scherzer says he will be ready for Opening Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/max-scherzer\/326473\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/max-scherzer\/326473\" target=\"_blank\">Max Scherzer<\/a> told reporters Tuesday that he will be ready for Opening Day despite joining camp late. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He also said he is completely over the thumb issues that plagued him the last two seasons, telling reporters he plans to pitch this weekend against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/philadelphia-phillies\/246\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/philadelphia-phillies\/246\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI feel good. I feel healthy. I just want to pitch,\u201d Scherzer said via MLB.com\u2019s Keegan Matheson.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Max Scherzer says he\u2019ll be ready for the start of the season and is completely past his thumb issues. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel good. I feel healthy. I just want to pitch.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlueJays?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#BlueJays<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Keegan Matheson (@KeeganMatheson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeeganMatheson\/status\/2028858448671121730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Multiple reports indicated Scherzer had reached a one-year deal with the Blue Jays last week and the deal was made official Monday evening. He reported to camp over the weekend and threw a bullpen on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cGood catching up with gramps,\u201d manager John Schneider said to reporters Monday. \u201cNice to have him back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The future Hall-of-Famer made 17 starts for Toronto during the 2025 regular season and pitched to a 5.19 ERA. He also made three additional starts in the postseason, including two in the World Series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 41-year-old Scherzer joins a crowded Blue Jays starting staff already featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/dylan-cease\/829000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/dylan-cease\/829000\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Cease<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/kevin-gausman\/548347\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/kevin-gausman\/548347\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Gausman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/trey-yesavage\/1519320\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/trey-yesavage\/1519320\" target=\"_blank\">Trey Yesavage<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/shane-bieber\/873698\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/shane-bieber\/873698\" target=\"_blank\">Shane Bieber<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/jose-berrios\/657852\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/jose-berrios\/657852\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Berrios<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/eric-lauer\/738156\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/eric-lauer\/738156\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Lauer<\/a> and Cody Ponce. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Jays have not officially laid out plans for their starting rotation, but Bieber is not expected to be ready for the start of the season due to arm fatigue coming off his Tommy John surgery recovery. Toronto has also said they would like to be mindful of Yesavage\u2019s workload coming off his meteoric rise through the team\u2019s system last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This season will be Scherzer\u2019s 19th in the big leagues. He is an eight-time All-Star, three-time Cy Young Award winner and a two-time World Series winner.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Max Scherzer told reporters Tuesday that he will be ready for Opening Day despite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[30173,5,377,2554,49115,4,282,70,46737,2553],"class_list":["post-603972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-blue-jays","tag-apple-news","tag-baseball","tag-blue-jays","tag-bluejays","tag-max-scherzer-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-326473","tag-mlb","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-toronto-blue-jays-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-238","tag-torontobluejays"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116166489902960351","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}