When the Red Sox traded for Chris Sale last winter, it was hard to be more excited about the prospect of one of the very best pitchers in baseball being in Boston. At the same time, there was a small amount of apprehension since the team had been through some tough luck in their first year with the Red Sox. That wasn’t the case with Sale, who was electric from his debut on. It’s true that there were some struggles late in the year, and those certainly can’t be forgotten, but the vast majority of his 2017 was amazing, and he was the most exciting Red Sox pitcher since Pedro Martinez.
Chris Sale finishes second in the American League Cy Young voting
