Chris Sale has had a rough go of if over the last year. Coming out of spring training last March he and the rest of the Red Sox pitchers were under-prepared thanks to former manager Alex Cora taking it a bit too easy on them. Sale didn’t look right from the get go, with diminished velocity and poor results on the mound. Fans and media alike wondered if he was still feeling the lingering effects of the ailments that slowed him down at the end of 2018.
We got our answer in August 2019 when he was shut down for good with an elbow ailment.