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Chris Sale responds to Alex Cora’s bizarre comparison to Garrett Crochet…
The majority of Chris Sale’s seven-year tenure with the Red Sox is always going to leave a sour taste in fans’ mouths, especially because of what he was able to do as soon as he left Boston.
After two fantastic seasons in 2017 and 2018 that made his five-year, $145 million extension seem like a no-brainer, he immediately dropped off in 2019, didn’t play in 2020 after getting a controversial Tommy John surgery, and only pitched 151 innings in his last three years due to constant injury.
And then, of course, he was traded to the Braves, became the first Braves pitcher to win the Triple Crown, and won his first Cy Young Award while the Red Sox went 81-81 and had a rotation that averaged a 4.00-ish ERA in 2024.
To their credit, the Red Sox front office did make great additions in the offseason, highlighted by their trade with the White Sox for Garrett Crochet.
At spring training, Alex Cora made a double-edged comparison between Sale and Crochet, saying the latter “looks like Chris Sale, but stronger.”
What Chis Sale texted Alex Cora after the manager’s Garrett Crochet comp … https://t.co/SzhJQKieDZ pic.twitter.com/dbkE0qg88i
— Rob Bradford (@bradfo) February 19, 2025
Alex Cora calls new Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet “Chris Sale, but stronger”
On the “Baseball Isn’t Boring” podcast, Sale said that he texted Cora a GIF from the movie Little Giants of a kid flexing in the mirror after hearing about the comparison, and he seemed to be in good spirits about the whole thing.
Crochet and Sale are both tall, lanky lefties, so in that regard, Cora’s sort of got a point, but the added caveat of “but stronger” will be key here. The Red Sox won’t have to pay Crochet as much as Sale, as he’s still arb-eligible until 2027, but before they managed to get Alex Bregman, Crochet was the linchpin of the Sox’s offseason, and no one wants to see his tenure in Boston go the same way as Sale’s.
There is a yellow flag attached to Crochet: he only became a full-time starter last year, and the White Sox limited his innings accordingly. So hopefully Crochet is both stronger and sturdier than Sale, otherwise Cora’s comments are destined to be tweeted out by Baseball Images that Precede Unfortunate Events and be meme’d in oblivion indefinitely.
The majority of Chris Sale’s seven-year tenure with the Red Sox is always going to leave a sour taste in fans’ mouths, especially because of what he was able to do as soon as he left Boston.
After two fantastic seasons in 2017 and 2018 that made his five-year, $145 million extension seem like a no-brainer, he immediately dropped off in 2019, didn’t play in 2020 after getting a controversial Tommy John surgery, and only pitched 151 innings in his last three years due to constant injury.
And then, of course, he was traded to the Braves, became the first Braves pitcher to win the Triple Crown, and won his first Cy Young Award while the Red Sox went 81-81 and had a rotation that averaged a 4.00-ish ERA in 2024.
To their credit, the Red Sox front office did make great additions in the offseason, highlighted by their trade with the White Sox for Garrett Crochet.
At spring training, Alex Cora made a double-edged comparison between Sale and Crochet, saying the latter “looks like Chris Sale, but stronger.”
What Chis Sale texted Alex Cora after the manager’s Garrett Crochet comp … https://t.co/SzhJQKieDZ pic.twitter.com/dbkE0qg88i
— Rob Bradford (@bradfo) February 19, 2025
Alex Cora calls new Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet “Chris Sale, but stronger”
On the “Baseball Isn’t Boring” podcast, Sale said that he texted Cora a GIF from the movie Little Giants of a kid flexing in the mirror after hearing about the comparison, and he seemed to be in good spirits about the whole thing.
Crochet and Sale are both tall, lanky lefties, so in that regard, Cora’s sort of got a point, but the added caveat of “but stronger” will be key here. The Red Sox won’t have to pay Crochet as much as Sale, as he’s still arb-eligible until 2027, but before they managed to get Alex Bregman, Crochet was the linchpin of the Sox’s offseason, and no one wants to see his tenure in Boston go the same way as Sale’s.
There is a yellow flag attached to Crochet: he only became a full-time starter last year, and the White Sox limited his innings accordingly. So hopefully Crochet is both stronger and sturdier than Sale, otherwise Cora’s comments are destined to be tweeted out by Baseball Images that Precede Unfortunate Events and be meme’d in oblivion indefinitely.
