Three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer said Saturday he is recovering from December surgery to repair a herniated disc in his lower back, while two-time Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom plans to have surgery on his elbow He returned to throwing this spring after surgery that ended his debut with the Rangers. Six starts.
“When we get back here, hopefully at some point before the trade deadline, it’s like picking up a couple guys,” deGrom said at the team’s annual Fan Festival.
Scherzer, 39, was acquired by the Rangers at the trade deadline last summer and went 4-2 with a 3.20 ERA in eight starts before missing one game. The last two weeks of the regular season and the first two rounds of the playoffs. He had a strained muscle in his right shoulder. He made two starts in the American League Championship Series, but was forced to withdraw after three innings in Game 3 of the World Series due to back discomfort, which ultimately led to surgery on December 15.
“We won the World Series, so everything was great,” Scherzer said. “You have to keep a glass-half-full mentality about it.”
The right-hander said he was checked out by a doctor after the season and an MRI showed a little inflammation in his back. Scherzer said he started feeling better before developing nerve pain in his leg, which led to two epidural injections and another MRI that revealed a herniated disc.
“I didn’t do anything. Like I wish I could tell you it was actually jumping out of the boat or something crazy,” Scherzer said. “I was literally limping around chasing the kids. That’s the biggest thing I’ve ever done.”
Scherzer said he has made it through the critical six weeks after surgery without any complications.
“Now I’m at a stage of rebuilding where I can get back into it while [figuring out] How to keep your arms ready when you’re doing it where the most attention is on bending, lifting, twisting,” he said.
His 3,367 strikeouts are the most among active pitchers. Last season, he went 13-6 with a 3.77 ERA in 27 starts with the New York Mets and Rangers, while striking out 174 in 152⅔ innings. As part of the July 30 deal with Texas, Scherzer exercised his 2024 option and the Mets will pay Texas $30,833,334, making the cost of the Texas pitcher $1,250 Ten thousand U.S. dollars.
Former Mets star deGrom left for Texas last offseason, signing a five-year contract worth $185 million that limited him to 30⅓ innings due to elbow surgery. Conditional option for extension to 2028. He was 2-0 with a 2.67 ERA and 45 strikeouts, and the Rangers won all six games he started; if they didn’t win at least three games, they’d miss out Playoffs.
DeGrom, 35, said he has begun a plyometric training program that must be completed before returning to throwing sometime this spring.
“My arm feels really good,” he said. “That’s the smart thing to do. You don’t want to push it because you want to keep pushing it here for the next few years. So that’s where we have to look at what’s the best plan moving forward, whenever that comes.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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