Dodgers’ Max Scherzer wins Players’ Choice Award as NL’s Outstanding Pitcher

Max Scherzer’s peers deliberation helium was the champion pitcher successful the National League successful 2021.

The Dodgers pitcher was named the NL’s Outstanding Pitcher among the Players’ Choice Awards that were announced Thursday. This is the 3rd clip successful his vocation Scherzer has won the award, voted connected by large league players. He was besides named the Outstanding Pitcher successful the American League successful 2013 and the National League successful 2017.

“To beryllium selected by the players arsenic the champion pitcher – you look these guys, that conscionable shows you they person a level of respect for you,” Scherzer said of the announcement. “They admit you arsenic the best. So that truly does mean a batch to me, to beryllium recognized by my peers.”

Scherzer is besides a starring campaigner for the NL Cy Young Award (it would beryllium his fourth) aft a play during which helium went 15-4 with a 2.46 ERA (second successful the NL), 0.86 WHIP (lowest successful MLB), 11.84 strikeouts per 9 innings (second successful the NL) and a .185 opponents’ batting mean (lowest successful MLB).

Along the way, Scherzer made his eighth All-Star squad and started the crippled astatine Coors Field for the National League and passed the 3,000-strikeout people successful his career, becoming the 19th pitcher successful shot past to scope the milestone. He got determination successful his 404th vocation game. Only Hall of Famer Randy Johnson recorded 3,000 strikeouts successful less games (362).

Traded from the Washington Nationals to the Dodgers astatine the extremity of July, Scherzer went 7-0 with a 1.98 ERA successful 11 regular-season starts for his caller team.

The 37-year-old right-hander volition go a escaped cause astatine the decision of the World Series.

AWARD SEASON

Three Dodgers were named finalists for the NL’s Gold Glove Awards this year.

Mookie Betts is simply a finalist successful close tract on with Adam Duvall of the Atlanta Braves and Mike Yastrzemski of the San Francisco Giants. Betts has won a Gold Glove each of the past 5 seasons.

AJ Pollock is simply a finalist successful near tract on with David Peralta of the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tyler O’Neill of the St. Louis Cardinals. Pollock won a Gold Glove arsenic a halfway fielder for the Diamondbacks successful 2015.

And Max Muncy is simply a finalist astatine archetypal basal on with three-time Gold Glove victor Paul Goldschmidt of the Cardinals and Freddie Freeman of the Braves.

Gold Glove winners are determined by a operation of voting by managers and coaches (who are not permitted to ballot for their ain players) and a sabermetric constituent which factors successful for astir 25 percent of the result.

Winners volition beryllium announced connected ESPN connected Nov. 7 astatine 5:30 p.m. PT.

Meanwhile, Muncy, 3rd baseman Justin Turner, infielder Trea Turner and catcher Will Smith are each finalists for Silver Slugger awards – the champion hitters astatine their respective positions – successful the National League.

Results are based connected voting by managers and coaches. Winners volition beryllium announced connected Nov. 11 astatine 3 p.m. PT connected MLB Network.

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