Is Max Scherzer a first ballot Hall of Famer?

Maxwell Martin Scherzer is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball.

He previously played in MLB for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Detroit Tigers, Washington Nationals, and Los Angeles Dodgers.

Early in his time at Missouri, Scherzer exerted so much effort in his windup that his head whip constantly caused his cap to fall off.

One of Scherzer’s coaches at Missouri, Tony Vitello, had helped to recruit him, and eventually persuaded him to pitch with more balance and control, and to stop leaping at hitters, which frequently caused him to miss up and into right-handed batters.

Is Max Scherzer a first-ballot Hall of Famer?

Projecting to the end of this year (if he keeps it up), his career so far is about equally as impressive as the entire careers of Sandy Koufax, Jim Bunning, Don Drysdale, Red Ruffing, or Stan Coveleski but also Rick Reuschel and Luis Tiant.

He’s already a certain HOFer, but I think he’s two or three years from being a first-ballot guy. Among pitchers from the last 20 years or so, his peak trails only Pedro, Clemens, Randy Johnson, Maddux, and (just barely) Halladay. But he’ll need some extra longevity to be seen as a slam dunk. He’s very likely to get it, though.