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Chris Sale Could Make MLB History In 2025
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The Atlanta Braves made the postseason for a seventh straight season after getting into the playoffs through a wild-card spot with a record of 89-73.
Although the Braves made the postseason, they were swept by the San Diego Padres in the wild-card series.
The Braves dealt with multiple injuries to many key players on their roster, but their ace starting pitcher managed to stay healthy and win the National League Cy Young Award.
Now, Chris Sale could make history in 2025.
According to MLB on X, Sale could become the first player to win back-to-back NL Cy Young Awards since 2019.
The projected numbers for Sale, according to Fangraphs projections, include 187 innings pitched with a 3.08 ERA and 230 strikeouts.
In 2024, Sale started 29 games and was 18-3 with a 2.38 ERA and 225 strikeouts in 177.2 innings pitched.
The projections for Sale suggest that he will have another great season and could become the first player to win back-to-back NL Cy Young Awards since Jacob deGrom did in 2018 and 2019.
Sale has dealt with multiple injuries in his career, and the 29 games started in 2024 were his most since he started 32 in both 2016 (Chicago White Sox) and 2017 (Boston Red Sox).
The Braves hope to get the same dominant pitcher in 2025 as they try to win another NL East title and possibly a World Series.
Sale is 35 years old, so it will be interesting to see if he can pitch the same number of innings again and avoid getting injured in the process.
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Braves Signed Free Agent First-Baseman On Sunday
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The Atlanta Braves made the postseason for the seventh consecutive season in 2024 after finishing with a record of 89-73 and coming in second place in the National League East.
Although the Braves snuck into the playoffs with a wild-card spot, they were swept in the wild-card series by the San Diego Padres.
After winning the World Series in 2021, the Braves made the playoffs for the next three seasons but failed to advance past the National League Division Series.
This offseason, the Braves have been relatively quiet with their only acquisition being Bryan De La Cruz, but that changed on Sunday.
According to MLB Insider Robert Murray on ‘X,’ the Braves and first baseman Garrett Cooper are in agreement on a minor league contract.
Although Cooper only signed a minor league contract with an invite to spring training, he has played in the MLB for eight seasons with five different teams.
Cooper came into the league in 2017 with the New York Yankees and played for the Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox in 2024.
In 2024 between the Red Sox and Cubs, Cooper played 36 games where he batted .206 with one home run, 11 RBIs, and a .566 OPS.
Although Cooper’s numbers don’t jump off the page, he has hit double-digit home runs twice in his career.
The Braves dealt with a variety of injuries to their key players in 2024, but they still managed to make the postseason.
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Chipper Jones Reveals Why He Took Less Money To Stay With Braves
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This Major League Baseball offseason has been one for the books thus far as plenty of talented players have switched teams for a large amount of money.
Top free agent Juan Soto from the New York Yankees broke the MLB record contract by signing a deal with the New York Mets worth $765 million over 15 years.
Soto’s contract broke the previous record held by Shohei Ohtani when he signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers for $700 million last year.
While it seems like an easy choice to just accept the offer that is the most money, not all players feel that way.
Former Atlanta Brave Chipper Jones revealed why he took less money to stay with the Braves.
Jones explains that the Braves are often unable to make similar offers to the offers made by some of the big market teams.
When it came to money, Jones was willing to take a little less to stay with the Braves as he knew they would be competitive with the roster that they had.
Jones had an impressive MLB career that began in 1993 and ended in 2012, and all 19 seasons of his career were played with the Braves.
His career numbers include a .303 batting average with 468 home runs, 1,623 RBIs, and a .930 OPS.
It is interesting to hear Jones’ take on the contracts and it will be interesting to see if other players take the same approach with the record-breaking contracts that are being signed.
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Braves Signed A New Outfielder On Sunday
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(Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images) The Atlanta Braves made the postseason for the seventh straight season in 2024 after finishing with a record of 89-73. Even after battling multiple injuries to key players throughout the season, the Braves still managed to clinch a spot in October. Although the season ended with the team being swept in the wild-card round, the Braves could think of the season as a success due to all the key injuries. The offseason has seen the Braves part ways with start ...
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Stats Show How Chris Sale Dominated With 1 Pitch In 2024
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The Major League Baseball awards have now been completed after the winners of the National and American League Most Valuable Players were announced on Thursday.
Chris Sale of the Atlanta Braves took home the NL Cy Young Award while Tarik Skubal won the AL Cy Young Award.
According to MLB Network Radio on Sirius XM on ‘X,’ opposing batters hit just .159 with zero home runs against Sale’s changeup in 2024.
Braves special assistant Tyler Flowers gave his thoughts on Sale’s changeup.
Opposing batters hit just .159 with ZERO home runs against Chris Sale's changeup in 2024.#Braves | @Braves
https://t.co/fGPbvbjGlC pic.twitter.com/LNAvhDnrIB
— MLB Network Radio on SiriusXM (@MLBNetworkRadio) November 22, 2024
Flowers not only mentions how dominating Sale’s changeup was this season, but he also believes that it helped him with his durability issues.
When Sale was playing for the Boston Red Sox, he was using his slider a lot more often, which Flowers thinks contributed to his injury issues.
2024 was Sale’s first season with the Braves and he started 29 games with a record of 18 wins and three losses with a 2.38 ERA and 225 strikeouts in 177.2 innings pitched.
Sale had a career-high in wins and his most strikeouts since the 2017 season when he had 308 with the Red Sox.
After winning his first Cy Young Award of his career, it will be interesting to see how Sale performs next season if he indeed does play another year.
The Braves will hope to see their newly acquired ace starting pitcher back on the mound next season.
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Chris Sale Reveals What Plans Were Prior To Trade To Braves
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The Atlanta Braves reached the NL playoffs in 2024 to make their seventh straight trip to the postseason.
Although the Braves lost to the San Diego Padres in the wild-card series, just making the postseason could be viewed as a success due to the amount of injuries the team had.
After the loss of Ronald Acuna Jr. and other valuable players, the Braves made the postseason largely due to the starting pitcher they acquired from the Boston Red Sox.
Chris Sale was traded to the Braves for infielder Vaughn Grisson and went on to win the 2024 NL Cy Young Award.
It could have worked out very differently, as Sale revealed what his plans were prior to landing with the Braves.
Sale came into the league in 2010 with the Chicago White Sox and played seven seasons for them before going to the Red Sox for the next six seasons.
In his first season with the Braves, Sale started 29 games and was 18-3 with a 2.38 ERA and 225 strikeouts in 177.2 innings pitched.
Sale added that he decided to home-school his kids to allow them to get the full baseball life experience throughout the season.
After having the best season of his career, it is unknown how many more years Sale plans to play.
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Insider Names 1 Team Showing Interest In Walker Buehler
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The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees to win their eighth World Series title in franchise history.
After the Dodgers suffered injuries to multiple starting pitchers during the regular season, they needed someone to step up.
Walker Buehler was that guy, as he appeared in two games during the World Series and did not allow a run while closing out the series out of the bullpen in Game 5.
Now that the season is over, Buehler will test the free-agent waters, and he is already drawing some interest from at least one NL rival.
Buehler made his MLB debut with the Dodgers in 2017 and has played all seven seasons of his major league career with the organization.
In 2024, Buehler started 16 games and was 1-6 with a 5.38 ERA and 64 strikeouts in 75.1 innings pitched.
Buehler overcame that disappointing regular season by pitching six scoreless innings in the World Series, allowing just two hits and striking out seven, including Alex Verdugo for the final out of the season.
The Braves also dealt with the injury bug in the 2024 season but were still able to make the playoffs.
Buehler likely increased his stock with his postseason performance, and the Braves could use the 30-year-old starting pitcher.
The Braves lost in the 2024 wild-card round but have made the playoffs each of the past seven seasons and won the World Series in 2021.
It will be interesting to see if they are able to sign Buehler after his dominant performance in the World Series.
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Braves Outfielder Had Embarrassing Moment At Yankee Stadium
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MLB players make routine plays look easy on a nightly basis and give fans a false sense of how difficult it is to complete even the most basic tasks on a baseball field, such as scooping up a grounder, or in this particular case, catching a fly ball.
Atlanta Braves center fielder Jarred Kelenic looked like an average person for a brief moment in Saturday’s 8-4 loss to the New York Yankees and made a play that he’ll hope to forget.
In the bottom of the fourth inning down 3-1, Yankees designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton lifted a fly ball deep to center field, and Kelenic quickly misread the ball, spun around, and ran directly into the wall while completely missing the ball, resulting in Stanton getting credited with a double.
The wind was obviously a factor in this one, and sometimes there’s nothing an outfielder can do in these situations when a high fly ball starts twisting and turning up there.
It was an unfortunate moment on one of the game’s biggest stages in front of 45,056 fans at Yankee Stadium, and Stanton would wind up scoring two batters later on a Gleyber Torres double.
Left fielder Adam Duvall had a similar gaffe in the previous game that resulted in a Jose Trevino triple, as he also completely misjudged a routine fly ball.
The Braves outfielders are not having a fun time on this trip to New York, though things are currently going well for Kelenic at the dish, as he was able to extend his hitting streak to nine games in this one.
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Chris Sale Is Leading MLB In Impressive Category This Season
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Since finishing off the 2018 World Series for the Boston Red Sox, Chris Sale’s career has been crushed by injuries year after year, and his bounce-back campaign after an offseason trade to the Atlanta Braves has been remarkable so far.
After five years of near-constant injury issues, Sale is off to a vintage start to the 2024 season and is now leading all of baseball in one impressive category.
StatMuse shared that Sale has more starts of logging at least seven innings this season than anybody else in baseball, as the ace has now gone seven in eight of his 13 starts so far.
At 35 years old, Sale has found the fountain of youth and looks like the guy who chewed up the American League for the better part of a decade, as he is now 9-2 with a 2.98 ERA and 99 strikeouts to just 13 walks.
He has been a revelation after being traded from the Red Sox this offseason for Vaughn Grissom and is making good on the two-year, $38 million extension he signed after the trade.
Sale has led one of the league’s best rotations alongside Max Fried, Reynaldo Lopez, and Charlie Morton that lost its ace, Spencer Strider, to elbow surgery early in the season.
Atlanta will need to continue leaning on its new ace after also losing superstar Ronald Acuna Jr. to a torn ACL in recent weeks, and this pitching staff will now be relied upon as the anchor to this ballclub.
It has been one of the feel-good subplots of this early season, and baseball is better when Chris Sale is whipping his frisbee sliders into the right-handed batters box on a weekly basis.
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The Braves Finally Ended A Mighty Streak
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The 2024 Atlanta Braves aren’t as good as their 2023 edition.
There is no shame in that: not every team is capable of winning 104 games with ease.
However, the situation is starting to become worrisome in Atlanta, as they lost their fifth straight game on Wednesday.
They dropped three straight games against the Washington Nationals and two against the Baltimore Orioles, with the finale coming on Thursday.
If Atlanta doesn’t win, it will be swept by the O’s.
The five-game losing streak breaks a historic run by the Braves, detailed by MLB stats expert Sarah Langs.
“The Braves went 934 games between 5+ game losing streaks. That’s the 2nd-longest such streak in MLB history, behind only: the Yankees’ 1,243 games between 5-game skids from 1930-38,” she tweeted.
Going 934 games between 5+ game losing streaks is remarkable.
As you can see, several seasons went by since the last time Atlanta dropped five consecutive contests.
They have been so consistently good for so long that it’s hard to imagine them losing that many games in a row.
Baseball, however, always has some space for a surprise.
The 36-30 Braves are good, but they don’t look elite.
As a result, their presence in the postseason could be in jeopardy if they don’t do something about that offense.
They still have capable starters such as Chris Sale, Max Fried, and Charlie Morton, but Ronald Acuna Jr. is out for the year and only Marcell Ozuna has shown his true talent with the bat.
The rest of the offense is inconsistent, and Atlanta might need to swing a trade to get back on track.
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