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One of the benefits of the White Sox traveling to Boston -- aside from the fact that I can see them -- is that David Laurila of FanGraphs usually comes away with something for us to read. That's where he's based, so he catches up with other teams when they play the Red Sox.
Sure enough, in his Sunday notes, he talked to Tyler Flowers about Chris Sale's pitch mix, and it kinda sounds terrifying:
Flowers on Sale’s four-seam fastball: "He’ll throw one that sinks and then he’ll throw it again, at 97 mph, and it will cut.