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“Leaning on people, man, I can\u2019t stress enough how much everyone helped me get here. I\u2019m just so, so thankful for them,” Sale said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He especially thanked all three Atlanta Braves catchers, Travis d’Arnaud,\u00a0Sean Murphy\u00a0and Chadwick Tromp, who worked with him and helped him put his best out there.<\/p>\n

“I mean, shoot, I had three catchers back there for me the whole year,” Sale added. “Trumpy got me out of the gate, and I wasn\u2019t that great early on. I wasn\u2019t as crisp as I was by mid-summer. But those guys were back there figuring it out. I didn\u2019t have this pitch; I didn\u2019t have that pitch. And yet, they got me through it really well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Then it was Trappy for a bit after that, and when Murph got back from his oblique injury, he guided me through games. I\u2019ve said it a lot: I don\u2019t game plan. I don\u2019t watch video. I don\u2019t do scouting reports. That\u2019s all on them. There were days when I only had two pitches, and they still had to navigate through tough lineups. I honestly can\u2019t thank them enough.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chris Sale finds Atlanta clubhouse the “easiest he walked” into<\/h2>\n
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Chris Sale didn’t perform well when he returned from injury in 2023. A dismal 4.30 ERA in 20 games played wasn’t the Sale Red Sox fans had expected. This led to the Red Sox trading him to the Braves in December, who then signed him to a two-year, $38 million contract.<\/p>\n

“Just being able to go down to Atlanta and feel comfortable\u2014that clubhouse was one of the easiest to walk into. I felt like I fit right in from the start,” Chris Sale told MLB Network.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Doing what he did in 2024 is nothing new for the 15-year MLB veteran. His first breakout year was 2012, and he went on to make the All-Star Game and finish in the top six of Cy Young voting every season for seven straight years.<\/p>\n

Now in the late half of his career, Chris Sale has found the grip on baseball yet again, and would at least like to pitch a few more years before he calls time on his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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