The Dodgers say they understand the decision. Teammate Trea Turner, who played the past seven years with Scherzer in Washington, called him one of the fiercest competitors in baseball.
“He’s pitched through a lot of things over the last seven, eight years that I've seen,’’ Turner said, “and he's not pitched through some things. He knows when his body's available to go or not. So, I think if he could, he would definitely be out there."
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