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Is Sale trade more likely after clubhouse incident?
- Updated: July 24, 2016
CHICAGO — The unthinkable has become feasible.
The White Sox, who were already listening to trade offers for Chris Sale, could be more likely to deal him after the relationship between the star and his club appeared to come apart at the seams on Saturday that took place before Chicago’s suspended game against Detroit.
This is sad for all the parties involved, except for one.
That would be any team that ponies up for the next three-plus seasons of the greatness that has been Sale in a White Sox uniform.
That team — the Rangers, Red Sox, Dodgers, Astros or Cubs, to name five of the 29 who covet him — would have just added a difference-maker in his prime.
Sale, 27, is the 2016 American League Cy Young Award frontrunner, a five-time All-Star, the White Sox record-holder for strikeouts in a season and signed to a contract that includes club options for ’18 and ’19.
Sale was scratched from a scheduled start and sent home from U.S. Cellular Field on Saturday, and according to MLB.com’s Jon Paul Morosi, this was after he cut up the team’s throwback jerseys because he didn’t want to wear them when he pitched against the Tigers.
Without Sale, the White Sox started reliever Matt Albers, who was pitching for the third day in a row. Robin Ventura used six relievers to get through eight innings, with Albers, Dan Jennings and Tommy Kahnle working two innings each. They kept the situation with Sale from turning into a mess on the field, though the game was suspended after the eighth inning due to rain. It will resume on Sunday at 1:10 p.m. CT.
White Sox general manager Rick Hahn said in a statement issued by the team that Sale had been sent home “due to a clubhouse incident.” He did not disclose specifics about the incident, saying only that it was …
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