#john-schneider

#john-schneider

While Scherzer may have put up some of the worst numbers of his Hall of Fame career during the regular season with the Blue Jays, he was an integral part of this teams success. A two-time World Series champion, Scherzer came into Spring Training with the Blue Jays and it felt like he set the tone right away.

"I'm trying to weigh out, is [his availability] every day?" "Is it off the bench? Obviously you want his bat in the lineup. I think just kind of getting to the spot with him and getting his feedback, him being part of it, how much, if at all, he's going to be compromised. And if not, OK, and how that affects everyone else that we're going to try to use and deploy."

His sixth inning grand slam gave the Blue Jays a 4-0 lead in a game they desperately needed to win. It was a huge response to the previous two games in which they failed to come up with a clutch hit over and over again, dropping two games to the Red Sox and allowing the Yankees to tie them for the top spot in the AL East.

"Much of what they do is behind the scenes. Lineups? he does drive me crazy by picking someone who isn't hitting into a prime spot in the order."