’s offseason has replication and variance. He won the National League Cy Young Award for the second consecutive season, so that was the same. Scherzer is still bothered by Game 5 of the National League Division Series. That, too, is a repeat of last year. He is also again preparing to meet a new coaching staff after the Washington Nationals fired their manager for the second time in Scherzer’s three seasons in the District.
It’s the personal changes that make this offseason different. Scherzer and his wife, Erica-May Scherzer, are expecting their first child any day.