Max Scherzer

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 208 lb

BornJuly 27, 1984 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 29, 2008

Seasons18 (2008–2025)

Arizona Diamondbacks 2008–2009; Detroit Tigers 2010–2014; Washington Nationals 2015–2020; Los Angeles Dodgers 2021; Washington Nationals 2021; New York Mets 2022–2023; Texas Rangers 2023–2024; Toronto Blue Jays 2025

Percentile snapshot

2021 season — qualified pitchers

10.5

13.2

89.5

94.7

55.3

SHO

119

100

97.4

92.1

236

92.1

36.8

179.3

39.5

ERA

2.46

97.4

WHIP

.864

100

K/9

11.84

92.1

FIP

2.93

89.5

FIP-

71.1

84.2

ERA+

168.2

94.7

sWAR

4.7

81.6

of 39 qualified 2021 pitchers (min 162 IP) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

129.5

96.2

sWAR

62.5

99.5

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2008	17	15	13	1	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	.000	.071	.000	.071	-99.9	-79.5	.053	1.4
2009	31	61	53	4	12	2	0	3	3	17	0	.226	.268	.264	.532	32.5	38.4	.247	2.5
2010	31	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.7	-100.0	.000	3.4
2011	33	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.4	-100.0	.000	1.2
2012	32	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.3	-100.0	.000	2.9
2013	32	3	3	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	.333	.333	.667	1.000	171.4	165.1	.424	5.2
2014	33	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.4	-100.0	.000	4.0
2015	34	77	69	4	15	0	0	0	2	23	0	.217	.239	.217	.457	17.2	26.8	.210	5.6
2016	34	85	70	4	13	1	0	12	2	30	0	.186	.208	.200	.408	0.3	10.0	.186	5.6
2017	31	72	62	4	10	0	1	5	4	16	0	.161	.212	.210	.422	3.4	10.5	.195	6.5
2018	35	78	70	8	17	2	0	6	1	14	1	.243	.274	.271	.545	41.5	46.2	.248	7.0
2019	29	61	55	6	10	0	0	2	0	27	2	.182	.182	.182	.364	-17.4	-5.3	.159	4.7
2020	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.2
2021	30	63	59	0	0	0	0	1	0	28	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.7	-100.0	.000	4.7
2022	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.1
2023	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.3
2024	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5
2025	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2008	16	7	0	4	0	0	48	19	21	66	5	56.0	3.05	1.232	10.61	3.30	72.7	148.7	1.4
2009	30	30	9	11	0	0	166	78	63	174	20	170.3	4.12	1.344	9.19	3.83	87.1	106.6	2.5
2010	31	31	12	11	0	0	174	76	70	184	20	195.7	3.50	1.247	8.46	3.68	88.3	119.1	3.4
2011	33	33	15	9	0	0	207	96	56	174	29	195.0	4.43	1.349	8.03	4.18	101.3	93.1	1.2
2012	32	32	16	7	0	0	179	78	60	231	23	187.7	3.74	1.274	11.08	3.22	76.5	112.4	2.9
2013	32	32	21	3	0	0	152	69	56	240	18	214.3	2.90	.970	10.08	2.77	67.7	141.2	5.2
2014	33	33	18	5	1	1	196	77	63	252	18	220.3	3.15	1.175	10.29	2.88	75.1	121.8	4.0
2015	33	33	14	12	4	3	176	71	34	276	27	228.7	2.79	.918	10.86	2.80	71.3	140.3	5.6
2016	34	34	20	7	1	0	165	75	56	284	31	228.3	2.96	.968	11.19	3.28	78.4	141.5	5.6
2017	31	31	16	6	2	0	126	56	55	268	22	200.7	2.51	.902	12.02	2.92	65.9	176.1	6.5
2018	33	33	18	7	2	1	150	62	51	300	23	220.7	2.53	.911	12.24	2.62	62.6	165.3	7.0
2019	27	27	11	7	0	0	144	56	33	243	18	172.3	2.92	1.027	12.69	2.41	53.5	153.9	4.7
2020	12	12	5	4	1	0	70	28	23	92	10	67.3	3.74	1.381	12.30	3.48	78.2	119.1	1.2
2021	30	30	15	4	1	0	119	49	36	236	23	179.3	2.46	.864	11.84	2.93	71.1	168.2	4.7
2022	23	23	11	5	0	0	108	37	24	173	13	145.3	2.29	.908	10.71	2.68	69.7	167.8	4.1
2023	27	27	13	6	0	0	126	64	45	174	28	152.7	3.77	1.120	10.26	4.32	102.2	112.5	2.3
2024	9	9	2	4	0	0	40	19	10	40	7	43.3	3.95	1.154	8.31	4.11	102.2	101.9	0.5
2025	17	17	5	5	0	0	87	49	23	82	19	85.0	5.19	1.294	8.68	4.91	118.7	79.7	-0.2
2026	16	16	3	8	0	0	68	49	31	54	14	72.7	6.07	1.362	6.69	—	—	—	—

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Greyed rows are the current season, sourced from our own game log rather than the archived record book: wRC+, OPS+, wOBA, FIP and sWAR land when the season is archived, and are never approximated before then.

Career totals

Batting

490

529

464

RBI

161

.1681

OBP

.1938

SLG

.1875

OPS

.3813

Pitching

G (P)

483

489th-most career G (P)

474

69th-most career GS

221

80th-most career W

117

364th-most career L

SHO

2,963

146th-most career IP

SO (P)

3,489

11th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

779

275th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.217

267th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.0840

15th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

10.60

7th-highest career K/9

Totals run through the last archived season (2025), so the current season in the table above is not in them yet. A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	TB
2017-08-01	WSH @ MIA Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	3	4
2009-05-26	SD @ AZ Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	2	3
2018-05-11	WSH @ AZ Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	1	3
2016-10-02	MIA @ WSH Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	4	2
2016-08-20	WSH @ ATL Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	2	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2016-05-11	DET @ WSH Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	0	20	2
2015-10-03	WSH @ NYM Gameday	9.0	0	0	0	0	17	0
2015-06-14	WSH @ MIL Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	1	16	0
2019-06-02	WSH @ CIN Gameday	8.0	3	1	1	1	15	0
2012-05-20	PIT @ DET Gameday	7.0	4	2	2	1	15	2

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

3× Cy Young Award8× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.