LOS ANGELES — In his one full season living the full-on Max Scherzer experience, Blue Jays manager John Schneider can pull off a quality impersonation of the future Hall of Famer that brings laughs all around. Article content

Schneider has the tone, cadence, intensity and vocabulary of the larger-than-life pitching personality down to a tee. Article content Article content

And now, having spent hundreds of hours listening to Scherzer baseball sermons in his office this season, as the World Series shifts to SoCal for Games 3-5, Schneider is entrusting that 41-year-old right arm to help the Jays wrestle back control of the best-of-seven series as Monday night’s starting pitcher..

Seen as a bold move by some, the manager knows that every fibre of Scherzer’s renowned competitive persona

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