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Could Sale be Cy Young, MVP worthy?
- Updated: May 23, 2016
CHICAGO — Back in Spring Training, I had the assignment of making a fearless prediction in regard to the White Sox and the 2016 season, so I said that Chris Sale would win his first American League Cy Young Award.
Through nine starts and nine wins, that prediction looks about as fearless as crossing a side street against the light.
When Sale was asked back in March about his Cy Young thoughts, he also spoke about the conditions needed for a pitcher to win the AL Most Valuable Player Award.
“I’m on the fence,” Sale said. “[Clayton] Kershaw, when he won it, I don’t think there was a doubt he was by far the best player in the league. On the flip side, playing devil’s advocate, I’m playing 33 games a year, and [Todd] Frazier is going out for 155 at least.”
To broach the subject of the MVP Award in late May seems about three months too early. But with the dominance shown by Sale through the first two months and his style exhibiting no signs of letting up, it’s a conversation with special circumstances.
Sale could end up with the sort of ridiculous …
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