Blue Jays pitcher Scherzer to visit specialist again as thumb soreness persists

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Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Max Scherzer is inactive dealing with soreness successful his close thumb and volition marque a 2nd sojourn to a specializer successful the United States aboriginal this week, manager John Schneider said Monday.

3-time Cy Young Award victor received a cortisone injection connected March 31

Ian Harrison · The Associated Press

· Posted: Apr 14, 2025 5:38 PM EDT | Last Updated: 30 minutes ago

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer is pictured walking to the dugout pursuing a 3-1 triumph implicit the visiting Baltimore Orioles 3-1 successful MLB regular-season enactment connected March 30, 2025.

Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Max Scherzer is inactive dealing with soreness successful his close thumb and volition marque a 2nd sojourn to a specializer successful the United States later this week, manager John Schneider said Monday.

A three-time Cy Young Award winner, Scherzer received a cortisone injection successful his troublesome thumb during a March 31 sojourn with Dr. Thomas Graham.

Schneider said the 40-year-old Scherzer played drawback respective times connected Toronto's caller roadworthy trip, doing truthful astir precocious Friday astatine Baltimore.

"He threw for 4 oregon 5 days connected the road, each time with immoderate varying grade of bully oregon bad," Schneider said. "He conscionable wants to effort to hammer it out."

Scherzer near his debut commencement with the Blue Jays against Baltimore connected March 29 aft 3 innings due to the fact that of soreness successful his close lat muscle. He said aft the crippled that his thumb contented was to blasted for that soreness.

Toronto enactment Scherzer connected the 15-day injured database connected March 30 due to the fact that of close thumb inflammation. Earlier successful March, Scherzer had a outpouring grooming commencement pushed backmost due to the fact that of thumb pain.

"The longer helium is out, the longer it volition instrumentality to get him back," Schneider said. "But I deliberation archetypal and foremost, conscionable privation to get it right.

Scherzer signed a one-year, $15.5-million declaration with the Blue Jays successful February. He went 2-4 with a 3.95 earned-run mean successful 9 starts for Texas past season, starting the twelvemonth connected the injured database portion recovering from little backmost surgery. He besides had a stint connected the IL with enarthrosis fatigue and didn't transportation aft Sept. 14 due to the fact that of a near hamstring strain.

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