Nationals complete deal with free agent pitcher Max Scherzer  —  The Washington Nationals radically altered the baseball landscape Sunday night, ending a winter of relative inactivity by agreeing to a seven-year contract with free agent pitcher Max Scherzer, according to a person with direct knowledge of the talks.

Baseball Notes: Scherzer contract makes history  —  Max Scherzer will become the highest-paid righthanded pitcher in major-league history after agreeing to a $210 million, seven-year contract with the Washington Nationals that includes a record $50 million signing bonus.

Signing Max Scherzer makes Washington Nationals better — right now and beyond  —  When a baseball team signs one of the best pitchers in baseball to a long-term free agent contract, then it just got significantly better.  There's risk.  It might have overpaid.  In a few years, today's jewel could be tomorrow's fool's gold.

(USATSI)  —  Top right-handed starter Max Scherzer and the Nationals are in agreement on a seven-year deal, CBSSports.com has learned.  —  Details of the deal beyond the seven years are not known.  —  Scherzer was reported by the Washington Post to have been “very close” …

JP Morosi  —  Despair not, Wisconsin sports fans.  Your favorite team remains involved in a competition certain to grip the nation's attention over the next two weeks.  —  Which team will trade for Jordan Zimmermann?  —  See?  Sunday's fourth-quarter collapse in Seattle actually was for the best.