Born on 27th July 1984, the famous Maxwell Scherzer is Jan and Brad Scherzer’s son. Chester field in Missouri is his birthplace. After his college he began his baseball career in 2008 and made a debut on 20th April of the same year against Houston Astros. Pitching is his forte and as a baseball pitcher he bats and throws in the right direction. He has a good sports record since childhood.According to the stats of 2016, he has a win-loss ratio of 125-69. His total average run is 3.39 and 1,881 are his total number of strikeouts which are really good numbers.
He played for three teams in total. First with the team Arizona Diamondbacks from the year 2008 till 2009. From 2010 to 2014 he played for Detroit Tigers and is presently playing for Washington Nationals since 2015.
One of his biggest achievements is that last year that is in 2016 he was chosen as the strikeout leader in MLB. He successively got Cy Young Award in 2013 and 2016 respectively. In 2016, he was given the title of ‘All star’ and further he won the same title three more times in the successive three years and striking out 20 batters in a game, he became the first baseball pitcher to do so in this century, this was a milestone in itself.
Maxwell Scherzer had one sibling, a brother named Alex who passed away in a suicide attempt due to depression in the year 2012. An amazing fact about Scherzer is that the color of his two eyes is different from one another. The colors are blue and brown for right and left eye respectively Many toys and dolls are made of Scherzer portraying his eye condition.
Maxwell Scherzer got married to his college love, Erica May Scherzer in 2013 who is also an athelete and played softball in her teenage. Facebook and twitter tell us that Scherzer and his wife who together lead a good healthy and wealthy life give away a proportion of their income in charity and other social issue programs.
In the year 2015, he signed a seven year stretch contract of net worth $210 million to Washington Nationals. Thus, in 2015 his salary was estimated to be approximately around $10 million. However, according to the recent reports his earnings in 2016 were 15 million US dollar.
Scherzer’s biography throws light on the fact that he has done wonders in his field till date, as it is not easy to gain so much in a period of 8 years. Since 2008 his fangraphs have been gradually increasing and are still continuing to do so.
Today, he ranks 8th in the highest paid baseball player. To become so efficient and fast in baseball is actually a milestone. He is a smart player and his pitching style is very unique. He throws the ball at a very high rate of 93 mph approximately and at few occasions he throws a curveball at a speed of 78 mph.
| Birth Date: | 27 Jul, 1984 |
| Age: | 35 yrs |
| Occupations: | Baseball player |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | St. Louis |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | Baseball pitcher from the United States |
| Net Worth 2021: | 50 million |
