{"id":447492,"date":"2023-07-31T00:39:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T04:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=447492"},"modified":"2023-07-31T00:39:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T04:39:37","slug":"rangers-acquire-max-scherzer-in-surprising-deal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rangers-acquire-max-scherzer-in-surprising-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers acquire Max Scherzer in surprising deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Rangers are giving their team a much needed boost, signing Max Scherzer.<\/p>\n<p>The AL West leaders acquired the three-time Cy Young Award winner from the New York Mets in a blockbuster trade on Sunday just hours after they announced Nathan Eovaldi will be on the 15-day injured list with a strained right forearm.<\/p>\n<p>News of the agreement broke Saturday night while the Rangers were losing for the sixth time in eight games, trimming their lead over second-place Houston to one game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We\u2019ve acquired RHP Max Scherzer and cash considerations from the New York Mets in exchange for minor league INF\/OF Luisangel Acu\u00f1a. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mg2qrwIQ4C\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Mg2qrwIQ4C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Texas Rangers (@Rangers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rangers\/status\/1685698157890703361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Texas also landed left-handed starter Jordan Montgomery, right-handed reliever Chris Stratton and international bonus pool money from the St. Louis Cardinals. Texas manager Bruce Bochy said Scherzer will make his Rangers debut Thursday against Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Rangers are giving their team a much needed boost, signing Max Scherzer. The AL West leaders acquired the three-time Cy Young Award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":447497,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17819,17405],"news_category":[16708,16715],"gn_keywords":[20670,18579],"acf":{"announce":"The news came as a surprise on Sunday night","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/447492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/447492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447492"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=447492"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=447492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}