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Max Scherzer closes on Long Island home for $400K under ask

Mets ace snags 5-bedroom Colonial in Old Brookville

Sotheby's Tara Fox, Compass' Traci Conway Clinton and Parsa Samii, and Max Scherzer with the pitcher's newly purchased 5-bedroom Colonial in Old Brookville (Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty, Compass, Getty)
Sotheby's Tara Fox, Compass' Traci Conway Clinton and Parsa Samii, and Max Scherzer with the pitcher's newly purchased 5-bedroom Colonial in Old Brookville (Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty, Compass, Getty)

Mets ace Max Scherzer knows a thing or two about negotiating, having hammered out two of the priciest contracts in baseball history and the latest collective bargaining agreement between Major League Baseball players and owners.

Those skills served him well when it came to buying a home on Long Island, property records show.

The Hall of Fame-bound pitcher just closed on an Old Brookville mansion for a cool $5 million, which was $400,000 below the asking price. Given the 3-year, $130 million deal he signed in November 2021, the savings amount to what he earns for two innings of work. Before taxes, of course.

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Despite the 7.4 percent discount, Scherzer got himself a heckuva house. Built in 1950 but renovated in 2019, the 10-room, tree-sheltered Colonial near Glen Cove Road has five bedrooms, five and a half bathrooms and a pool on 3.84 acres.

Tara Fox and Lois Kirschenbaum of Daniel Gale Sotheby’s had the listing, and Compass agents Traci Clinton and Parsa Samii brought the star buyer.

The purchase isn’t much of a gamble for the 38-year-old Scherzer, who famously bet on himself before his final season with the Detroit Tigers in 2014, when he turned down a six-year, $144 million extension. After a solid season — his fifth in a row — he inked a seven-year, $210 million deal with the Washington Nationals.

In July 2020, Scherzer bought a waterfront mansion in Jupiter, Florida, for $9.8 million.

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