And can now fuck off and die. Greedy fucking wanker. Hope he gets lit up this year.

After Max Scherzer turned down a contract offer from the Detroit Tigers that would have made him one of the seven highest-paid pitchers in baseball, the team threw their star pitcher under the bus with a statement and called off negotiations.

Scherzer, who will be one of the top free agents after the season, rejected a 6-year, $144 million contract according to Jon Morosi of Fox Sports.

Afterwards, the Tigers released a statement placing all the blame on Scherzer.

"The Detroit Tigers have made a substantial, long-term contract extension offer to Max Scherzer that would have placed him among the highest paid pitchers in baseball," the statement reads. "And the offer was rejected."

The statement went on to say that the team wants to focus on the season and that there will be no more in-season negotiations.

At $24 million per season, the offer was comparable to other deals signed by top pitchers in recent years and only four pitchers have a higher annual average on their current contracts.

However, the offer is still way behind the $32.2 million Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw will average over the same six years.

Even if it is ridiculous to think Scherzer deserves more than $24 million per season, it was a risky move on the part of the Tigers to make such a public statement and alienating one of their best players a week before the season starts.

The statement also makes it much more likely that Scherzer will be pitching for a different team in 2015.

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It's not that risky a statement to make. I mean, he's gotta pitch lights out all year if he wants to beat that offer. It's obvious that he pissed off management and they know (as well as the rest of us) that the offer was way over his value. So fuck him. Get the last year, know he has to be great or he really screwed the pooch big time.

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Yankees will overpay for him next year regardless of a good or bad season.

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I saw this earlier. He's an idiot and the Tigers should be happy.

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I don't know the economics of baseball well enough to know if the offer was one he should've accepted, but I never consider a player greedy for trying to get as much money as possible.

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He gets more money on the free market if he is even close to last year.

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Probably true. Baseball economics are totally fucked up.

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He will go to the Dodgers for something like 7 years 210 and then will blow his UCL miss most of 2 seasons...be 33 and a shell of his former self and all will be right with the world.

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Pitching prices never stopped going up. After the steroid era it seems there are less crazy deals for hitters (with some obvious exceptions)

He's not a great pitcher. He's an above average pitcher.

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Yeah overall. He was great last year

Some are making the pitches thrown argument to say he's got less mileage

That's a nice way to paint injuries


Boras knows he's got an elderly man with deep pockets who will spend virtually anything to win

I guess he should be commended for betting on himself. If he can outpitch an offer of $24 per that would take him into his age 37 season, he deserves every penny. I see as much more likely he breaks down, and last year will be his career year.

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