Max Scherzer
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"Maxwell M. "Max" Scherzer" is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball (MLB). Scherzer has also played in MLB for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Detroit Tigers. In 2013, he won the American League Cy Young Award.

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We've had three years of success. We've never really been recognized this early. We've always been picked (low to start), and then we always went out and surprised everybody. Well, now somebody has said we should do well this year. . . . Obviously we have the opportunity to take it up a level, but it is on this year.

For everyone coming back, for all the things we have going for this program - the talent, the makeup - you've got to feel that we have a shot to get to Omaha. It'd be taking this program up that big step, that next level. We want to do that. We want to do that. For Hunter and Culp, it's the same thing. You're not playing for the draft. You're playing for Omaha.

He's not the loudest kid out there, but you know when he goes out there he is going to compete. He's a leader because he's a leader on the field. He goes out there, does things and inspires people to do well. That's what he does.

It's a funny game. Sometimes it's the little things that don't go your way. As a pitching staff, we are just going out there and try to throw up zeros because we know we want the next guy to go up and put up zeros. Everybody is trying to pull up each other.