Max Scherzer threw a changeup in his search for the perfect South Florida home.
The Major League Baseball pitcher and his wife, Erica, are selling their unfinished custom build in Jupiter’s exclusive Admiral’s Cove, asking $36 million, the New York Post reported.
Holly Meyer Lucas has the listing along with Kimberly Thomson and Courtney Payne, all of Compass.
The Scherzers paid $14.9 million in 2023 for the teardown at 217 Commodore Drive. It’s on the same street as a waterfront home they bought for $9.8 million in 2020.
They were nearing the end of construction on their “dream home.”
But then Hobe Sound came to the plate.
They decided to sell after touring Atlantic Fields, a Discovery Land Company development in Hobe Sound, a source told the outlet.
The Jupiter home is expected to be completed next winter. It has five bedrooms, eight and a half bathrooms and 325 feet of wraparound frontage on the Intracoastal Waterway. The property also includes a new seawall, a dock for an 88-foot boat, an infinity pool and summer kitchen with a pizza oven. The home sits on a 0.7-acre corner lot at a high point in the neighborhood.
Krista Watterworth Alterman of Krista + Home designed the interiors. The home has a guest apartment and a five-car garage.
Scherzer, 41, has two World Series titles and $345 million in career earnings. He’s a free agent, ending last season with the Toronto Blue Jays and a 5.19 ERA. He told the Athletic that he “is “healthy and ready to sign at any moment if certain teams call.”
When Scherzer played for the New York Mets, under a $130 million contract signed in 2021, he and his wife spent $5 million to buy a 1950-built house on a little under 4 acres in Old Brookville, on Long Island, New York.
Their fondness for that pad and its acreage is part of what attracted them to the Hobe Sound deal, the outlet said.
— Rachel Stone