ATLANTA — Chris Sale led the Majors in wins this 12 months and he’s positioned to rank close to the highest in postseason awards victories.
Sale was named to the All-MLB First Group offered by MGM Rewards throughout the All-MLB Awards present in Las Vegas on Thursday night time. The announcement got here shortly after he was named the NL’s Comeback Participant of the Yr. Sale received a Gold Glove Award final week and is a finalist for the NL Cy Younger Award, which will probably be offered on Nov. 20.
All-MLB honors, first established in 2019, acknowledge one of the best participant or gamers at every place throughout the Majors in a given season, with each First and Second Group picks. The winners are determined by followers, who this 12 months had the possibility to solid their on-line ballots from the tip of the common season via Oct. 11.
The Braves counted Sale as their lone consultant on the All-MLB First and Second groups this 12 months. Marcell Ozuna was the one different robust candidate, however the designated hitter spots got to the Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani (First Group) and the Astros’ Yordan Alvarez (Second Group).
The Tigers’ Tarik Skubal, the Pirates’ Paul Skenes, the Phillies’ Zack Wheeler and the Orioles’ Corbin Burnes had been this 12 months’s different First Group beginning pitchers.
Sale received the NL Triple Crown by main the league in wins (18), ERA (2.38) and strikeouts (225). He was the primary NL pitcher to guide in every of those classes since Clayton Kershaw in 2011.
Sale additionally completed three strikeouts behind Skubal’s MLB-leading whole (228). Had he handed Skubal whereas persevering with to guide the Majors in ERA, Sale would have change into MLB’s first Triple Crown winner since Johan Santana led the Majors in all three main classes in 2006.
The Braves lefty additionally ranked first amongst MLB pitchers with a 6.4 fWAR, a 32.1 % strikeout price and a 2.09 FIP.
