Is Max Scherzer the best Mizzou product to play in the Majors?

Just in case you hadn't noticed, former Mizzou ace Max Scherzer is smoking hot right now.

So... the final tally: @Max_Scherzer faced 54 batters between hits, spanning 12 days & 3 games.1 BB, 1 HBP in that span.

— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) June 27, 2015

Max Scherzer was perfect through 5 innings in each of 3 consecutive starts Last to do so: Yankees' Doyle Alexander in 1976 (Elias)

— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) June 27, 2015

Scherzer 9-5 with a 1.79 ERA this season, and his last three starts have been stunning: 26 innings, six hits, two earned runs, 30 strikeouts, one walk. Last weekend, he threw a no-hitter and got covered in chocolate syrup, and on paper, the start before his no-hitter may have been as or more impressive. Yesterday's 5-2 win over Philadelphia was 'only' excellent.

Scherzer has been in the majors for seven and a half seasons now; he is 100-55 with a 3.43 career ERA, and his career ERA+ is 122 (100 = average). In Detroit (where he won the 2013 Cy Young Award) and Arizona, it was 117. So far in Washington, it's 212.

Max Scherzer is a total stud, in other words. Is he the best former Mizzou player ever in the pros? I'm thinking so. Thanks to the ever amazing Baseball Reference, we can find a list of all former Tigers who made the majors. Here are the pitchers.

Only 11 Mizzou players have pitched at least 200 innings in the pros, and five of them have made their debuts in the last 10 years. #PitcherU, etc. But the only competition for Max in the Best Mizzou/MLB Pitcher race is Sonny Siebert, who reached two all-star games and threw a no-hitter in 1966 for, strangely enough, the Washington Senators.

Siebert was good and lasted for 12 years, and another mid-'60s call-up, reliever Darold Knowles, lasted 16 years. But Scherzer has almost certainly already surpassed them. The Cy Young win gives him leverage, he's already pitched more innings than Knowles, and he's already almost struck out as many players as Siebert. And when you adjust for era, his case is even better. Siebert's career ERA+ was a solid 110, but Scherzer's is better, and it is apparently improving.

(Kudos to Shaun Marcum, by the way, for an underrated, long career. Marcum started at Mizzou before finishing at Missouri State.)

So what about hitters?

For Best Mizzou/MLB Position Player, the race appears to be between Ian Kinsler, Phil Bradley, and 1920s players Glenn Wright and Homer Summa. Wright's career .775 OPS seems like the best considering the era, but advanced stats say Bradley might be the guy: Wright's career OPS+ is 99, Kinsler's is 108 (it's only been about 99 over the last four seasons), and Bradley's is 119. Kinsler's got the edge in raw stats, at least: most hits, second-most RBIs, and by far the most home runs.

So if we're making a list of best overall Mizzou/MLB players, it would probably look something like this:

1. Max Scherzer
2. Sonny Siebert
3. Phil Bradley
4. Darold Knowles
5. Ian Kinsler

Scherzer's a pretty easy No. 1, and the margin is growing.