The Toronto Blue Jays are perhaps the most injured team in Major League Baseball right now, especially on the pitching side of things. On Monday, they begin a three-game set with the Boston Red Sox. To the surprise of a lot of MLB fans, the Red Sox and Blue Jays are sitting at the bottom of the AL East standings.
Also on Monday, the Toronto Blue Jays announced some notable Max Scherzer injury news.
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Max Scherzer Heading to Injured List
GettyTORONTO, ONTARIO – NOVEMBER 01: Max Scherzer #31 of the Toronto Blue Jays reacts as he is pulled from the game by manager John Schneider #14 during the fifth inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers in game seven of the 2025 World Series at Rogers Center on November 01, 2025 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
Per a Blue Jays team announcement ahead of the Red Sox series, Max Scherzer is heading to the 15-day Injured List with forearm tendinitis and left ankle inflammation. A double whammy for Scherzer, who has been battling his fair share of injuries in recent seasons.
Max Scherzer, now 41-years-old, was contemplating whether or not he wanted to continue playing baseball this season, but he decided to re-sign with the Blue Jays late in the free agency cycle on a one-year, $3 million contract.
He’s pitched 18.2 innings this season, and has a bWAR of -0.8 and an ERA of 9.64. He was limited to 85 innings with the Blue Jays in 2025, but also struggled with an earned run average north of 5.00.
One of this generation’s best starters, and a sure-fire Hall of Famer, it’s tough to see a once dominant starter start to be whittled down due to age and injury.
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Max Scherzer’s Hall of Fame Resume
GettyWASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 25: Starting pitcher Max Scherzer #31 of the Washington Nationals acknowledges the crowd after recording his 300th strikeout for the year against the Miami Marlins for the second out of the seventh inning at Nationals Park on September 25, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)
It’s hard to imagine that Max Scherzer will be playing baseball after this season.
With this recent injury list announcement, which could end up being a bigger issue, paired with his ineffectiveness at this stage in his career, it’d be fair to assume Scherzer will really question his future in MLB.
However, he still has one of the best resumes in the sport for a starter.
A three-time Cy Young award winner, 8X MLB All-Star, and two-time World Series Champion. Scherzer has 3499 strikeouts in his career over 2981+ innings and 479 starts.
The Blue Jays are the seventh MLB team he’s played for, and his Baseball Reference page is just littered with black ink.
He had one of the most dominant stretches for a starter of all time from 2016 to 2018 with the Nationals, where he led his league in strikeouts three consecutive seasons. At one point in his career, Max Scherzer had six straight seasons of posting 200+ innings.
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