The Atlanta Braves needed Chris Sale to turn back the clock this season. They invested in him this offseason, trading infielder Vaughn Grissom for Sale and signing him to an extension. Then they lost ace Spencer Strider for the year to Tommy John surgery. Now, young lefty Max Fried has expressed what he's learned from the future hall-of-famer and Cy Young favorite.
“I’d only heard good things about him, just as a person,” Fried said to the Atlanta Journal-Dispatch. “But to be able to experience who he is as a person every day, the competitor he is – I’ve been able to learn a lot this year.