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<blockquote data-quote="pruman91" data-source="post: 1760986" data-attributes="member: 3916"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/ben-frederickson/benfred-scherzer-s-record-breaking-contract-working-early-wonders-for-the-mets/article_e4cb88c3-c346-51e8-abfb-ed589b0d7902.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/Ben%20Frederickson" target="_blank">Ben Frederickson</a></p><p>It has been suggested by some that Mets owner Steve Cohen was so fired up that the Cardinals signed free-agent starter Steven Matz out from under him this offseason that baseball’s big spending owner became more determined to sign Max Scherzer.</p><p>Three years and $130 million for the closest thing to a sure thing a 37-year-old pitcher can be — hey, it’s not my money and Cohen has plenty of it — looked worth it through seven superb innings of Cardinals domination on Monday night at Busch Stadium.</p><p>If Mets manager Buck Showalter could have predicted the future, perhaps he would have given Scherzer at least a shot to retire the bottom two hitters in the Cardinals’ lineup along with leadoff man Tommy Edman in the eighth inning instead of sending in reliever Trevor May.</p><p></p><p>All Scherzer had done before the pitching change was stack up 10 strikeouts on 101 pitches while limiting Cardinals in scoring position to one. (Tommy Edman briefly occupied second base in the third.)</p><p>But, it’s still April, and Scherzer still is within spitting distance of a hamstring scare, and it’s still cold out there, and, well, managers as experienced as Showalter don’t make the mistake of mistaking late April for a postseason push.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pruman91, post: 1760986, member: 3916"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/ben-frederickson/benfred-scherzer-s-record-breaking-contract-working-early-wonders-for-the-mets/article_e4cb88c3-c346-51e8-abfb-ed589b0d7902.html[/URL] [URL='https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/Ben%20Frederickson']Ben Frederickson[/URL] It has been suggested by some that Mets owner Steve Cohen was so fired up that the Cardinals signed free-agent starter Steven Matz out from under him this offseason that baseball’s big spending owner became more determined to sign Max Scherzer. Three years and $130 million for the closest thing to a sure thing a 37-year-old pitcher can be — hey, it’s not my money and Cohen has plenty of it — looked worth it through seven superb innings of Cardinals domination on Monday night at Busch Stadium. If Mets manager Buck Showalter could have predicted the future, perhaps he would have given Scherzer at least a shot to retire the bottom two hitters in the Cardinals’ lineup along with leadoff man Tommy Edman in the eighth inning instead of sending in reliever Trevor May. All Scherzer had done before the pitching change was stack up 10 strikeouts on 101 pitches while limiting Cardinals in scoring position to one. (Tommy Edman briefly occupied second base in the third.) But, it’s still April, and Scherzer still is within spitting distance of a hamstring scare, and it’s still cold out there, and, well, managers as experienced as Showalter don’t make the mistake of mistaking late April for a postseason push. [/QUOTE]
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