With Mike Trout now off the table with his massive $430 million dollar deal, soon-to-be free agents are taking advantage of the bull market by locking up huge early extensions. The Red Sox and Chris Sale have reached a five-year $145 million dollar extension pending a physical. Sale will make $15 million this year, his walk year, and the extension will kick in keeping him a Red Sock through the 2024 season.
Sale has been one of the top starters in baseball over the past seven years but shoulder problems limited the soon-to-be 30-year-old southpaw to just 17 innings work over the final two months of last season. Sale still went 12-4 for the year with a 2.11 ERA and struck out 237 batters. Sale has a career record of 103-62 with a 2.90 ERA for his career.
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