Max Scherzer’s adorable daughter sent a handwritten note to the Blue Jays
“I hope my dad is back on the team”
After the Toronto Blue Jays made it all the way to the World Series for the first time in 32 years, Jays fans really wanted last season’s team to stay together. Bo Bichette watch didn’t end the way we hoped, but that’s okay, we know contract negotiations are complex.
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Max Scherzer’s adorable child seems to know this too, at an impressively early age, so she did what needed to be done and wrote a letter directly to the Jays to make sure her dad wouldn’t also get traded.
“I am so sorry that you didn’t win the World Series. I hope that you win next time. I hope my dad is back on the team,” Scherzer’s daughter, Brooke, wrote in a handwritten note, which her mom, Erica Scherzer, just posted to Instagram. “My whole family loves spending time in Toronto with our dad,” she said, adding that the Scherzers enjoy going to the aquarium, the CN Tower (spelled in her own precious, sounded-out way) and the Rogers Centre, naturally.
She signed off as “Max Scherzer daughter.” Subtle, strategic, total power move.
The Associated Press reported today that Scherzer signed a $3-million (US) one-year contract to return to the Jays. All thanks to Toronto’s youngest super-agent.
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
