http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/05/02/chris-sales-new-way/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Wed, 05 Dec 2018 22:40:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/05/02/chris-sales-new-way/#comment-411 Tue, 10 May 2016 17:59:23 +0000 http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=1592#comment-411 […] weigh in at third in MLB by this metric, up from 27th in 2015.  Moreover, much has been made about Chris Sale’s concerted effort to pitch more efficiently without trying to strike out 100 percent of the hitters he faces, and the better […]

]]> http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/05/02/chris-sales-new-way/#comment-331 Mon, 02 May 2016 17:59:20 +0000 http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=1592#comment-331 How much of Sale’s transformation came from (either Sale himself or the Sox) knowing without Flowers his K rate was going to sink so he’d have to find other ways to get guys out than ‘just’ dominant pitching and the occasional stolen strike?

]]> http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/05/02/chris-sales-new-way/#comment-330 Mon, 02 May 2016 17:38:11 +0000 http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=1592#comment-330 With almost any other pitcher it would be. For example, I’m pretty sure Mat Latos not getting a single swing-and-miss on his fastball all season is not by design.
Sale is on such an elite tier, and has said enough to indicate that he is trying out new things on purpose, that I am waiting for him to get shelled and not be able to do anything about before I get real worried. For now, he’s just fascinating and weird.

]]> http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/05/02/chris-sales-new-way/#comment-328 Mon, 02 May 2016 15:03:11 +0000 http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=1592#comment-328 This whole situation is quite alarming.

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