CHRIS SALE IS in a new clubhouse, a new uniform, a new city, all part of his third act. He's content, a far cry from where he's been in recent years. He's also not ready to call this newest phase of his career a rebirth, even if that's how it might look to a baseball world that seemed to have forgotten him in recent years.
"That sounds like a Disney movie," he says. "I'm not, I guess, sentimental as that. I'm just playing baseball."
Maybe it's that simple. Playing is something he's done far too sparingly over the past half-decade, and it eats at him, this notion of fragility, of unfinished business.