Following the recent talk surrounding Red Sox ace Chris Sale‘s ongoing elbow issues, there’s been plenty of debate on social media about whether the trade to land him in Boston in December 2016 was the right decision for this franchise based upon current events.
For this even to be debated by fans, this is pretty insulting to one of the best pitchers you’ll likely see take the mound at the major league level. Sale has proved to be one of the game’s most feared and elite pitchers again and again over the years. The 7-time All-Star was absolutely vital to the 2018 World Series winning campaign that the Sox put together, and without him this likely wouldn’t have panned out the way that it did in the extreme fashion that it did.