Chicago White Sox Need to Make a Decision on Chris Sale
As far as I can tell, Chris Sale has been traded at least fourteen times in the last month or so to at least ten different teams. And yet, Chris Sale is still a member of the Chicago White Sox. Give it up. He won’t be traded, if he’s ever traded at all, until the deadline in July………..
If you look at it from the perspective of the Chicago White Sox , it doesn’t make any sense for them to trade Chris Sale during this offseason. And yet, the talk of the Hot Stove League continues to be exactly that – talk.
Chris Sale: Talk, Talk, Talk
Teams and journalists alike are jumping over each other trying to find a team that has the high level prospects that would wet the appetite of the White Sox. But, you’re the White Sox now, and do you really want a boatload of “prospects” when you already have one of the premier starting pitchers in all of baseball. Prospects who are just that – prospects and the possibility of finding gold in them there hills by the ‘forty niners” in California.
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Don’t think so. If you are the White Sox, you want a bona fide major star to replace a bona fide major league star that you have in Chris Sale. Anything else would be telling the White Sox fan base that you are in a rebuilding mode, something no team ever wants to say, even if it’s true.
So if you buy into that, what team is going to offer what player to satisfy your needs. Any suggestions? Not me, the possibilities are endless and it becomes yet another reason why all of the talk is talk.
Chris Archer , sure. Another one of those trade “inevitabilities” this offseason. He’s the one with the 9-19 record last year with a 4.07 ERA that teams appear to be lining up for to take a chance on, Fine, but he is not Chris Sale.
And again, you are the White Sox looking at a All Star pitcher who you have under contract for at least two more years at a salary most would consider a steal ($15-17 million) – and you want to trade him?
But Is It Possible……
Unless of course, he has become persona non grata in the White Sox camp and they simply want to dump him because of his “insubordination” on two occasions. In the Spring, he called out the front office accusing them of lying about a situation involving teammate Adam LaRoche. And then Sale followed that up with the so called jersey incident during the season that further inflamed the winds of discontent in a already unsettled clubhouse.
Whatever it is though, it’s the Chicago White Sox move. And so far, most or all of the talk has been coming from teams interested in Sale, and not from the White Sox except when they’re asked. Which is about every day. And the answer is always the same. They have no immediate intention to trade Chris Sale.
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And for once, a team may actually be speaking the truth. Why can’t we just “let it be” until they actually decide otherwise…….