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Chris Sale

Christopher Sale

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 6", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: March 30, 1989 in Lakeland, FL
High School: Lakeland Senior HS (Lakeland, FL)
School: Florida Gulf Coast University (Fort Myers, FL)
Drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 1st round (13th pick) of the 2010 amateur draft.
Signed June 20, 2010. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 6, 2010 (Age 21)
Team: WhiteSox 2010-2012
2013 Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 2.061, Arb Eligible: 2014, Free Agent: 2017 [*],
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Fine Details  · Last updated Feb 12, 2013 2:17PM
All-Time Rank (among pitchers): #785. Ted Wilks… #786. Milt Wilcox… #787. Jose Valverde… #788. CHRIS SALE… #789. Cliff Melton… #790. Joe Shaute… #791. Elmer Riddle… 

Standard Pitching

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Year Age Tm Lg W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF ERA+ WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB Awards
2010 21 CHW AL 2 1 .667 1.93 21 0 8 0 0 4 23.1 15 5 5 2 10 0 32 0 0 1 92 225 1.071 5.8 0.8 3.9 12.3 3.20
2011 22 CHW AL 2 2 .500 2.79 58 0 17 0 0 8 71.0 52 22 22 6 27 3 79 2 0 2 288 156 1.113 6.6 0.8 3.4 10.0 2.93
2012 23 CHW AL 17 8 .680 3.05 30 29 0 1 0 0 192.0 167 66 65 19 51 5 192 6 0 6 772 142 1.135 7.8 0.9 2.4 9.0 3.76 AS,CYA-6
3 Yrs 21 11 .656 2.89 109 29 25 1 0 12 286.1 234 93 92 27 88 8 303 8 0 9 1152 150 1.125 7.4 0.8 2.8 9.5 3.44
162 Game Avg. 10 5 .656 2.89 54 14 12 0 0 6 141 115 46 45 13 43 4 149 4 0 4 568 150 1.125 7.4 0.8 2.8 9.5 3.44

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg IP G GS R RA9 RA9opp RA9def RA9role PPFp RA9avg RAA WAA gmLI WAAadj WAR RAR waaWL% 162WL% Salary Awards
2010 21 CHW AL 23.1 21 0 5 1.93 4.57 -0.27 -0.35 102.8 4.61 7 0.7 1.6 0.2 1.1 10 .535 .505
2011 22 CHW AL 71.0 58 0 22 2.79 4.52 -0.07 -0.35 104.9 4.45 13 1.4 1.5 0.2 2.2 21 .524 .509 $425,000
2012 23 CHW AL 192.0 30 29 66 3.09 4.50 0.04 0.17 104.4 4.83 36 4.2 3.2 -0.1 5.7 59 .639 .526 $500,000 AS,CYA-6
3 Seasons 286.1 109 29 93 2.92 4.51 -0.01 0.00 104.4 4.72 56 6.3 1.6 0.2 9.0 90 .558 .513 $925,000

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
2010 21 CHW AL 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
2011 22 CHW AL 58 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
2012 23 CHW AL 30 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 AS,CYA-6
3 Yrs 109 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 1 0 0
162 Game Avg. 162 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 1 0 0

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg G PA Rbat Rbaser Rdp Rfield Rpos RAA WAA Rrep RAR WAR waaWL% 162WL% oWAR dWAR oRAR Salary Pos Awards
2010 21 CHW AL 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 .500 .500 0.0 0.0 0 1
2011 22 CHW AL 58 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 .500 .500 0.0 0.0 0 $425,000 1
2012 23 CHW AL 30 3 -1 0 0 0 0 -0 -0.0 0 -0 0.0 .499 .500 0.0 0.0 -0 $500,000 1 AS,CYA-6
3 Seasons 109 3 -1 0 0 0 0 -0 -0.0 0 -0 0.0 .500 .500 0.0 0.1 -0 $925,000

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rdrs Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
2010 CHW AL 21 P 21 0 0 23.1 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 -1 -9 0.39 0.05 .950 1.62 1.61 0 0 0
2011 CHW AL 22 P 58 0 0 71.0 20 5 15 0 0 1.000 2 6 2.54 0.34 .949 1.60 1.59 3 4 57% 28% 3
2012 CHW AL 23 P 30 29 1 192.0 34 8 25 1 1 .971 -1 -1 1.55 1.10 .954 1.57 1.56 14 10 42% 25% 6 AS,CYA-6
3 Seasons P 109 29 1 286.1 55 13 41 1 1 .982 0 0 1.70 0.50 .952 1.58 1.59 17 14 45% 26% 9
3 Seasons TOT 109 29 1 286.1 55 13 41 1 1 .982 0 0 1.70 0.50 .952 1.58 1.59 17 14 45% 26% 9
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
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Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1945 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1945 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
2012 *

Cy Young (yr lg (rk, shr))
2012 AL (6, 9%)
0.09 Career Shares (196th)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
2012 AL  5.7 (9th)

WAR for Pitchers† s c a p y
2012 AL  5.7 (4th)

Earned Run Average s c a p y
2012 AL  3.05 (4th)

Wins s c a p y
2012 AL  17 (4th)

Win-Loss % s c a p y
2012 AL  .680 (5th)

Walks & Hits per IP s c a p y
2012 AL  1.135 (5th)

Hits per 9 IP s c a p y
2012 AL  7.828 (5th)

Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y
2012 AL  9.000 (4th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
2012 AL  192 (9th)

Strikeouts / Base On Balls s c a p y
2012 AL  3.765 (8th)

Adjusted ERA+ s c a p y
2012 AL  142 (3rd)

Adj. Pitching Runs s c a p y
2012 AL  28 (3rd)

Adj. Pitching Wins s c a p y
2012 AL  3.0 (3rd)

Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)† s c a p y
2012 AL  33.88 (3rd)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
2011 AL  3.7 (7th)
2012 AL  3.3 (9th)

Sit. Wins Saved (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
2012 AL  2.8 (5th)

Base-Out Wins Saved (REW)† s c a p y
2012 AL  3.5 (3rd)

Youngest s c a p y
2010 AL  born 1989-03-30 (1st)


† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1945-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Gray InkPitching - 17 (1183), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame MonitorPitching - 6 (1215), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
JAWS Relief Pitcher (240th), 9.0 career WAR/9.0 7yr-peak WAR/9.0 JAWS
Average HOF RP (out of 5) = 37.9 career WAR/26.7 7yr-peak WAR/32.3 JAWS

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  5. Dick Lines (950)
  6. Carlos Diaz (950)
  7. Kevin Saucier (950)
  8. Frank Funk (950)
  9. Alexi Ogando (948)
  10. Tom Tellmann (947)
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  6. Kent Mercker (947)
  7. Will McEnaney (946)
  8. Steve Howe (944)
  9. Chuck McElroy (943)
  10. Bob Lacey (938)
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Transactions

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Salaries

 Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes/Other Sources
201122Chicago White Sox$425,000
201223Chicago White Sox$500,000contracts
2013 StatusPre-Arb Eligible, Earliest Arb Eligible: 2014, Earliest Free Agent: 2017
Career to date (may be incomplete)$925,000
Primary salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Additional 1915-1969 salaries researched via Baseball Hall of Fame contract archives by Dr. Michael Haupert of UW-LaCrosse.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Salaries converted to alternate years using Consumer Price Index (CPI) data courtesty of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Board.

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