On this day four years ago, the Washington Nationals rocked the baseball world when they signed top free agent Max Scherzer. And the rest, as they say, is history as he right-hander is now seemingly a lock for the Hall of Fame.
Adam Kilgore of The Washington Post was the first to report the news on January 19th, but the deal wasn’t official until January 21st. He signed a seven-year, $210 million deal that would firmly place the Nationals rotation as the best in baseball at the time.
The signing drew plenty of criticism, with MLB execs voting the signing the worst of that particular offseason.