MLB / Players

Chris Sale

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 6 in · 183 lb

BornMarch 30, 1989 · Lakeland, FL, USA

MLB debutAugust 6, 2010

Seasons15 (2010–2025)

Chicago White Sox 2010–2016; Boston Red Sox 2017–2019; Boston Red Sox 2021–2023; Atlanta Braves 2024–2025

Percentile snapshot

2024 season — qualified pitchers

8.8

10.5

98.2

SHO

141

100

80.7

225

98.2

100

177.7

54.4

ERA

2.38

100

WHIP

1.013

91.2

K/9

11.40

100

FIP

2.16

100

FIP-

52.2

100

ERA+

173.8

100

sWAR

5.4

96.5

of 58 qualified 2024 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

140.5

98.6

sWAR

50.0

98.8

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2010	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
2011	58	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.9
2012	30	3	2	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.0	-100.0	.000	4.5
2013	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.8
2014	26	3	3	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.4	-100.0	.000	5.1
2015	31	9	9	1	1	0	4	.111	.111	.111	.222	-54.6	-37.7	.098	3.4
2016	32	6	6	0	1	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	-21.0	-7.8	.147	4.3
2017	32	3	3	0	1	1	1	.333	.333	.667	1.000	157.5	153.5	.414	6.1
2018	27	2	2	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.7	-100.0	.000	5.5
2019	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
2021	9	1	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.9	-100.0	.000	1.1
2022	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
2023	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.2
2024	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	5.4
2025	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2010	21	0	2	1	4	0	0	15	5	10	32	2	23.3	1.93	1.071	12.34	2.70	64.0	219.1	0.9
2011	58	0	2	2	8	0	0	52	22	27	79	6	71.0	2.79	1.113	10.01	3.16	74.1	153.0	1.9
2012	30	29	17	8	0	1	0	167	65	51	192	19	192.0	3.05	1.135	9.00	3.22	76.8	137.7	4.5
2013	30	30	11	14	0	4	1	184	73	46	226	23	214.3	3.07	1.073	9.49	3.20	77.3	135.1	4.8
2014	26	26	12	4	0	2	0	129	42	39	208	13	174.0	2.17	.966	10.76	2.60	68.7	174.5	5.1
2015	31	31	13	11	0	1	0	185	79	42	274	23	208.7	3.41	1.088	11.82	2.70	68.5	115.8	3.4
2016	32	32	17	10	0	6	1	190	84	45	233	27	226.7	3.34	1.037	9.25	3.42	83.2	123.3	4.3
2017	32	32	17	8	0	1	0	165	69	43	308	24	214.3	2.90	.970	12.93	2.44	53.8	156.2	6.1
2018	27	27	12	4	0	0	0	102	37	34	237	11	158.0	2.11	.861	13.50	2.01	46.3	206.4	5.5
2019	25	25	6	11	0	1	1	123	72	37	218	24	147.3	4.40	1.086	13.32	3.43	71.9	108.4	2.0
2021	9	9	5	1	0	0	0	45	15	12	52	6	42.7	3.16	1.336	10.97	3.73	80.6	146.1	1.1
2022	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	5	2	1	5	0	5.7	3.18	1.059	7.94	2.35	56.9	129.9	0.1
2023	20	20	6	5	0	0	0	87	49	29	125	15	102.7	4.30	1.130	10.96	3.80	85.1	103.8	1.2
2024	29	29	18	3	0	0	0	141	47	39	225	9	177.7	2.38	1.013	11.40	2.16	52.2	173.8	5.4
2025	21	20	7	5	0	0	0	102	36	32	165	11	125.7	2.58	1.066	11.82	2.76	65.3	163.7	3.6
2026	26	26	14	9	0	1	1	125	38	31	190	9	157.0	2.18	.994	10.89	—	—	—	—

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Greyed rows are the current season, sourced from our own game log rather than the archived record book: wRC+, OPS+, wOBA, FIP and sWAR land when the season is archived, and are never approximated before then.

Career totals

Batting

393

RBI

.1154

OBP

.1154

SLG

.1538

OPS

.2692

Pitching

G (P)

393

312

318th-most career GS

145

281st-most career W

SHO

2,084

407th-most career IP

SO (P)

2,579

32nd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

487

ERA

3.010

178th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.0456

7th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

11.14

2nd-highest career K/9

Totals run through the last archived season (2025), so the current season in the table above is not in them yet. A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	TB
2017-06-15	BOS @ PHI Gameday	3	0	1	1	2
2015-06-30	CWS @ STL Gameday	3	1	1	0	1
2016-07-28	CWS @ CHC Gameday	2	0	1	0	1
2011-06-17	CWS @ AZ Gameday	0	0	0	0	0
2011-06-28	CWS @ COL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2019-05-14	COL @ BOS Gameday	7.0	3	2	2	0	17	1
2018-05-11	BOS @ TOR Gameday	9.0	6	3	3	0	15	1
2012-05-28	CWS @ TB Gameday	7.1	3	1	1	2	15	0
2015-08-16	CHC @ CWS Gameday	7.0	1	0	0	2	15	0
2016-08-26	SEA @ CWS Gameday	9.0	5	3	3	0	14	1

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

1× Cy Young Award1× Gold Glove1× Triple Crown9× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.