{"id":99234,"date":"2025-04-14T19:47:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T23:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=99234"},"modified":"2025-04-14T19:47:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T23:47:25","slug":"blue-jays-veterans-thumb-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/04\/14\/blue-jays-veterans-thumb-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Veteran&#8217;s Thumb Issues Persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest injury update with Max Scherzer is not the best news for the Blue Jays, as he is still dealing with pain in his thumb. Scherzer has engaged in throwing, and unfortunately, the discomfort he&#8217;s been experiencing is lingering. According to manager John Schneider, Scherzer will visit specialist Dr. Thomas Graham this week for the second time. On March 31st, Scherzer got a cortisone shot in his thumb from his specialist.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Max Scherzer (thumb) is still feeling soreness after throwing recently, John Schneider says.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s going to visit a doctor again in the coming days. <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlueJays?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BlueJays<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Keegan Matheson (@KeeganMatheson) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeeganMatheson\/status\/1911872976670118029?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Scherzer&#8217;s Thumb Issues Continue to Spiral<\/h3>\n<p>Scherzer&#8217;s debut this season against the Baltimore Orioles on March 29th was not what the three-time Cy Young Award winner had hoped for. After three innings, he was forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/03\/29\/blue-jays-max-scherzer-leaves-game-right-lat-soreness\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">leave the game<\/a> as he was experiencing discomfort in his right lat muscle. Scherzer then made the connection that the lat soreness was connected to his thumb. He was then placed on the 15-day IL on March 30th. Scherzer was also dealing with the pain in his thumb during camp, and the thumb issue has been a consistent issue he&#8217;s been dealing with since last season. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/mlb\/article\/blue-jays-max-scherzer-to-visit-specialist-again-as-thumb-soreness-persists\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Schneider<\/a>, he wants Scherzer to get this issue taken care of.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The longer he is out, the longer it will take to get him back,&#8221; Schneider said. &#8220;But I think first and foremost, just want to get it right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays would be wise not to force his return and make sure he is in perfect health before returning.\u00a0Considering Scherzer&#8217;s age and how persistent his thumb issue has been, things aren&#8217;t looking the brightest. Luckily, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/04\/09\/blue-jays-rookie-deserves-another-start\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Easton Lucas<\/a> has filled in for the veteran and has been pitching well across two starts, giving up no runs. It looks like the rookie will be getting more opportunities in the rotation. However, the Blue Jays could also turn to Jake Bloss if Lucas experiences any struggles. Last season, Scherzer recorded a 2-4 record with a 3.95 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest injury update with Max Scherzer is not the best news for the Blue Jays, as he is still dealing with pain in his thumb. Scherzer has engaged in throwing, and unfortunately, the discomfort he&#8217;s been experiencing is lingering. According to manager John Schneider, Scherzer will visit specialist Dr. Thomas Graham this week for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4831,"featured_media":99245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3253,2513,79],"class_list":["post-99234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bluejays","tag-easton-lucas","tag-injured-list","tag-max-scherzer"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99247,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99234\/revisions\/99247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}