This past weekend, The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal wrote that while previous reports quoting Max Scherzer’s agent, Scott Boras, noted that Scherzer, “would require a contract extension to waive his full no-trade protection,” if the Washington Nationals tried to trade him before this week’s July 30th deadline, Boras later clarified, talking to the Washington Post, that, “... when players are traded, and you refer to contract amendments, it does not necessarily mean an extension.”
Rosenthal noted that Boras this week, “reiterated that stance...saying that tax adjustments, moving expenses and other amenities are far more likely to be part of such a conversation than an extension,” and with Scherzer, now 37, playing out the final year of his 7-year/$210M deal in D.