Scherzer signed a one-year, $15.5 million contract with Toronto after an injury-plagued 2024 with the Texas Rangers.

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This is not a golden era for starting pitchers. After all, in a five-year stretch from 2015-19, pitchers tallied at least 270 strikeouts on 10 occasions. Last season, no one reached 230 whiffs. And in ...