I believe you've been handed a, your new cap
. Yeah. So if you wouldn't mind putting that
on, okay, there we go. I'm Fran
Charles with the MLB dot com fast cast following a
busy week across free agency and trades many new faces
introduced to their new organizations, Wednesday, the newest
met max Scherzer kicked things off, meeting with the
media for the first time since signing his three year
deal, 4th, million dollars when you change teams
. It's always bizarre. So it's such a weird
experience and I just got a first taste of it
, you know, the season to be able to
move to Dodgers in mid season. And that was
, that was completely weird and first starts against the
Astros. So like talk about crazy, like I
feel like my whole, my whole career, I've
dealt with crazy of changing teams. So, um
, now obviously it would be the same, may
be facing nationals, that, that's gonna be a
wild experience for myself, but uh, you know
, be fun to compete against them. You know
, you look forward to those matchups, uh,
facing your friends, you heard me, I'll play
whatever position they need me to play. Um,
as long as I'm in there, uh, whatever
part of the lineup I'm in, whatever position I'm
in, I'll do whatever I need to do to
help with the one, I love the stadium,
I love, you know, the idea of my
family moving here, raising my kids here and,
and playing middle infield at a high level for a
long time that all those things. I went into
this decision and at the end of the day,
we knew this would write them, I enjoy the
work of it, the grind, the passion for
the game, the do it the right way and
to have the right people, you know, it
always comes down to people and these guys sitting beside
me are great people and they have a great vision
for this organization and I was really excited to be
a part of the way that I see, that
the field is going to give me a lot of
confidence to, to hit the ball um around the
, around the whole, the whole infield and I
mean, I don't the whole field and it's gonna
give me confidence to, you know, to have
my, my approach and and have better, better
selection of pitching, seeing the last series uh that
was played here, the fan, the fan base
, you know, showing up seeing the, you
know, talking to jerry and Justin and ownership and
seeing the vision and the direction of this team and
the way that it was headed man, I just
, I just want to be a part of it
, you know, Toronto has been a special place
for us in the past and I made my debut
there and so I'm excited to hopefully be ending my
career at the same place they started. So I'm
really excited about that special place for me, especially
from my family and there's nowhere else we want to
be. This is where we made a home uh
, nine years ago and we get to, you
know, live for seven more years here. So
officials say I might be a Minnesota while we saw
some new faces and new places Wednesday afternoon, a
couple of other deals went down, observe an agreement
on a deal with Marcus Stroman. After opting out
of the 2020 season, Stroman posted a dominant 302
E. R. A. Starting 33 games for
the Mets in 2021 clubs. Obviously the cubs franchise
, the history, the tradition here. It's one
of the best franchises in all of sports and band
bases as well. So it's extremely appealing to me
. It sells out every single night. Super utility
man chris Taylor and the Dodgers are in agreement on
a deal reporting MLB Network Insider ken Rosenthal Taylor has
found a lot of success throughout his six seasons in
L. A. Hitting to 64 with 79 home
runs while playing six defensive positions, staying in the
N. L. West reliever Mark Melanson and the
Diamond Bachelor. An agreement on a two year deal
. 4th 14 mil Milan's a notched 39 saves in
2021 his most since the 2015 season pitching to a
2 to 3 E. R. A. In
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