{"id":664743,"date":"2017-05-03T09:57:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T13:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=664743"},"modified":"2017-05-03T09:57:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T13:57:47","slug":"chris-sale-is-the-ace-the-boston-red-sox-have-been-looking-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/chris-sale-is-the-ace-the-boston-red-sox-have-been-looking-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Sale Is the Ace the Boston Red Sox Have Been Looking For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">When the Boston Red Sox signed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/priceda01.shtml\">David Price<\/a><\/strong> to a record-breaking seven-year, $217 million contract prior to the 2016 season, it seemed like they finally found the ace they desired to have at the top of their starting rotation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As it turns out, that didn&#8217;t happen until they traded for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/salech01.shtml\"><strong>Chris Sale<\/strong><\/a> this past winter. Boston <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2016\/12\/red-sox-to-acquire-chris-sale.html\">gave up a lot to acquire him<\/a> from the Chicago White Sox, but he&#8217;s been everything the organization could&#8217;ve hoped for given their specific situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/buchhcl01.shtml\"><strong>Clay Buchhotz<\/strong><\/a> traded and both Price and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wrighst01.shtml\"><strong>Steven Wright<\/strong><\/a> on the disabled list, Boston&#8217;s rotation depth &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosterresource.com\/mlb-boston-red-sox\/\">which isn&#8217;t terrific<\/a> &#8212; has been tested early. Thankfully, they&#8217;ve been able to lean on a historic start from Sale, who has been an anchor for\u00a0this group.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chris Sale: 3rd different pitcher to have sub-1.50 ERA (ER = off&#39;l stat in 1913) and 60+ Ks in first 6 starts of a season (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EliasSports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EliasSports<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lhjBUofAmm\">pic.twitter.com\/lhjBUofAmm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN Stats &amp; Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNStatsInfo\/status\/859586943335768065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And if there&#8217;s any former Red Sox hurler fans want to be reminded of when they see Sale dominate like this, it&#8217;s this guy.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chris Sale is the first <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RedSox?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RedSox<\/a> pitcher with 5 straight double-digit strikeout games since Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; High Heat Stats (@HighHeatStats) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HighHeatStats\/status\/859584115594625024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">One would imagine that with Pedro&#8217;s reaction to what&#8217;s been happening, he&#8217;s awfully impressed with how the southpaw has begun his tenure in Beantown.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chris Sale is already surpassing everything I&#39;ve done<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pedro Martinez (@45PedroMartinez) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/45PedroMartinez\/status\/859594240892043264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This is not the first time Sale has gone on a\u00a0strikeout binge, either. However, this latest run of dominance puts him in an exclusive club, and it&#8217;s even more exclusive when considering he&#8217;s a left-handed pitcher.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pitchers with multiple career streaks of at least five games with 10+ K in each:<\/p>\n<p>Chris Sale<br \/>Nolan Ryan<br \/>Pedro Martinez<br \/>Randy Johnson<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ryan M. Spaeder (@theaceofspaeder) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theaceofspaeder\/status\/859591925728280581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With six starts under his belt, Sale leads the majors in innings pitched (45.2) and fWAR (2.2), along with being among the league leaders in just about every pitching category you can think of.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">What&#8217;s interesting is he&#8217;s relying on his fastball less than ever up to this point. Sale is throwing the ol&#8217; number one just 45.8% of the time, compared to a 59.2% rate last year. He&#8217;s also throwing his slider (24.9% in &#8217;16, 29.3% in &#8217;17) and changeup (15.7% in &#8217;16, 25.0% in &#8217;17) at levels we haven&#8217;t seen from him in quite a while.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With this change in pitch selection, it shouldn&#8217;t be overly shocking to see his chase rate go from 33.3% to 35.7%, along with his contact rate dropping from 76.9% to 67.7%. He made a conscious effort\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fangraphs.com\/blogs\/chris-sale-is-pitching-to-contact-now\/\">to pitch to contact in 2016<\/a>, but that seems to have gone by the wayside.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Since the offense is still trying to find its way without <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/o\/ortizda01.shtml\"><strong>David Ortiz<\/strong><\/a>, the pitching needs to step up for the Red Sox. And despite the injuries they&#8217;ve had to deal with up to this point, Boston can at least feel confident in finally having a true ace that can go out and dominate every five days again.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><img alt=\"Chris Sale Is the Ace the Boston Red Sox Have Been Looking For\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/thebloguin.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/mmusicoavatar.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/>About Matt Musico<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matt Musico currently manages Chin Music Baseball, contributes to The Sports Daily and is also an editor for numberFire. In the past, he has also written for FanDuel Insider and Bleacher Report. He&#8217;s a lover of all baseball, especially the Mets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:matt.musico8@gmail.com\"><img alt=\"Chris Sale Is the Ace the Boston Red Sox Have Been Looking For\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-641981\" src=\"https:\/\/thebloguin.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/email-e1489377666362.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/> Email<\/a> <img alt=\"Chris Sale Is the Ace the Boston Red Sox Have Been Looking For\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-641982\" src=\"https:\/\/thebloguin.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/twitter-128-e1489377693470.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mmusico8\">Twitter<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Boston Red Sox signed David Price to a record-breaking seven-year, $217 million contract prior to the 2016 season,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":664747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[447945913,703638948,231608556],"tags":[19031,33551606,511654],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - 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