Mad Max: Ageless in MLB's Tech Era

0:00It's April 28th. This is Canada News Today, driven by AI. Max Scherzer, the veteran Blue Jays pitcher known as Mad Max, has a stacked resume with eight All-Star nods in four World Series runs. At 41 years and nine months, he's heading into his 20th big league season and his 42nd birthday on July 27th. But a rough start this year shows father time catching up to the once dominant ace. The youngest player in Major League Baseball right now is 20-year-old DDA Fuentes of the Atlanta Braves born in 2005. That means Scherzer pre-dates a wild wave of tech that Fuentes takes for granted from the first dis-man and flash memory in the mid-80s, too. Smart phones and social media. Think about it. Scherzer came into the world the same year as Photoshop, the NES and Windows 1.0. By the 90s we got the web, playstations, and DVDs. Then Google, iPods, Facebook, all before Fuentes was even born. It's a reminder of how fast the games evolved off the field, too.

1:02He's no spring chicken for the Jays, but Scherzer isn't even the third oldest to pitch or play there. Hall of Famer Phil Necro wrapped up at 48 in 1987 and Omar Viscale suited up at 45 in 2012. Mad Maxke's grinding through it all, proving experience still counts in a league wired for the future.