The average annual salary of $43.3 million will shatter the previous record set by Gerrit Cole, who signed a nine-year, $324 million contract with the Yankees before the 2020 season.
Before his final season with the Detroit Tigers in 2014, Scherzer turned down a six-year, $144 million contract extension.
He bet on himself and a year later he signed a seven-year, $210 million deal with the Nationals.
His deal with the Mets also calls for an opt-out after the second year of the contract and a full no-trade clause.
Then on Monday, they lured Scherzer, pushing their estimated 2022 payroll to a franchise record $266 million, according to Cot’s Baseball Contracts — the highest in Major League Baseball at the moment and far past the existing $210 million luxury tax threshold.(Semien reportedly agreed to a seven-year, $175 million contract with the Texas Rangers over the weekend.).