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Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer has racked up an impressive career with eight All-Star appearances and four trips to the World Series, but with his 42nd birthday just around the corner, Mad Max isn't quite the intimidating force of nature on the mound that he earned a career-long reputation for. Born on July 27, 1984, Max Scherzer may not have cracked the top 3 ranking of the oldest players to suit up for the Blue Jays, but at 41 years and 9 months, he's no spring chicken — evidenced by a rocky start to his 2026 season — his 20th in the bigs. But to just get a sense of how old 41 is in baseball terms (I'm 38 and am running an above-zero chance of grievously injuring myself getting out of bed on any given morning), why not turn to the ever-evolving science and technology landscape to get a sense of just how much the world has changed since Mad Max entered it? Here's a list of every major innovation between Max Scherzer's birth and the birth of the current youngest player in the MLB: First portable CD player (Discman) - Nov. 1984 Flash memory - Dec. 1984 Microsoft Excel - 1985 Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) - 1985 Blockbuster Video - 1985 Microsoft Windows 1.0 - 1985 Mir Space Station - 1986 First household bread-making machine - 1986 Airbus A320 - 1987 HP ScanJet (first mass-produced commercial image scanner) - 1987 Canon EOS (flagship camera line to present day) - 1987 Photoshop - 1987 Prozac (antidepressant) - 1988 Morris worm (first widespread computer virus) - 1988 Sega Genesis - 1988 Game Boy - 1989 Super Soaker - 1990 Hubble Space Telescope - 1990 First functional World Wide Web browser and server - 1990 First webcam - 1991 The first text message (SMS) ever sent - 1992 PDF format - 1993 QR Code - 1994 Sony PlayStation - 1994 First online food ordering system (Pizza Hut) - 1994 JavaScript - 1995 Amazon - 1995 GPS - 1995 Cloned sheep - 1996 PalmPilot (early smartphone) - 1996 Nintendo 64 - 1996 DVD - 1996 PNG image format - 1996 Toyota Prius (first mass-produced hybrid car) - 1997 Google - 1998 Bluetooth - 1998 MP3 players - 1998 Blackberry - 1999 Emojis - 1999 USB flash drive - 2000 Camera Phones - 2000 iTunes - 2000 iPod - 2001 Skype - 2003 Facebook - 2004 The youngest current MLB player, 20-year-old Didier Fuentes of the Atlanta Braves, was born in 2005. Which seems like a perfectly reasonable place to cut off this list, but I will close out with a few honourable mentions from the months leading up to Scherzer's birth in 1984. Honourable mentions: Apple Macintosh computer - released Jan. 1984, six months before Scherzer's birth First human embryo transfer - Feb. 1984, less than six months before Scherzer's birth Tetris - first released June 1984, seven weeks before Scherzer's birth Despite living through immense changes in science and technology, Scherzer isn't even close to the oldest player to ever suit up for the Toronto Blue Jays. Hall of Fame pitcher Phil Niekro played his final game for the Jays in 1987 at the tender age of 48 years and just shy of 5 months. Shortstop Omar Vizquel wasn't too far behind, last suiting up for the Jays in 2012 at 45 years and 5 months old.
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