"A little bit of me will be, but I think I'm more looking forward to this opportunity than any other emotion, just because it's fun," Sale continued. "I'm playing against my friends. It might be hard to not smile out there on the mound at a couple of them."
It only took Sale parts of seven seasons, from 2010-16, to emerge as one of the White Sox all-time great hurlers. He holds the single-season franchise strikeout mark with 274 in '15 and finished with a 74-50 record, a 3.00 ERA, 12 saves, 14 complete games and 1,244 strikeouts and 260 walks over 1,110 innings.