By Jen Marder
June 7, 2010
Today the Chicago White Sox selected Chris Sale in the first round (#13 overall) in the 2010 MLB Draft. Baseball Beginnings has been scouting Sale from the start of the draft cycle. Enjoy links to the content we have published on him through the year.
Watch Chris Sale Video
Read Chris Sale Scouting Report
Read Chris Sale Q&A
Read post-draft Fall 2010 Catching up with Chris Sale
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
April 15, 2010
Chris Sale is no secret anymore, but it wasn’t that long ago when only a few people were aware of the tall left-hander from Lakeland, Fl., who might occasionally pop 90 on the radar gun but otherwise had pedestrian velocity. Over time, Sale became a more mature pitcher and person. He helped himself in the Cape Cod League last summer, where Baseball Beginnings caught up to him for this Q&A. To his credit, Sale hasn’t lost the momentum he established last summer. For Florida Gulf Coast, Sale started the 2010 season 5-0 with a 1.41 ERA. He had 67 strikeouts and 44 hits allowed in 51 innings pitched.
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
March 11, 2010
Left-hander Chris Sale’s frame is long, loose and lean and offers the potential that there is more power to come in his arm. That is one reason why I like Sale, because I think he has more projection that you typically find in college starting pitchers considered for the first round. Most times, guys who are proclaimed “polished,” are anything but. In this case, Sale is more like a fresh and loose arm who is going to be adding polish to power as a pro. That is a very desirable combination from a scouting perspective.
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
February 6, 2010
Chris Sale showed up in the Cape Cod League last summer committed to prove that he had matured into a professional prospect. We’ll have a Q&A with him this spring, but for now, here’s a look at who might be the first college left-hander off the 2010 draft board.
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
October 14, 2009
Left-hander Chris Sale is the prospect story for Yarmouth-Dennis in 2009, putting himself in a good position to go well in the 2010 draft. Continuing our scouting notebook of the Cape, here’s the guys we saw that we liked.
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
September 29, 2009
The Baseball Beginnings pre-draft 2010 college list isn’t made up of Boras Babies and Baseball America Beauties. Instead, we go by the players we have seen in person on the Cape or out West here in California. This list is being published in September 2009, eight full months before the June 2010 MLB Draft. As we stated in our high school lists for pitchers, infielders, outfielders and catchers, our college lists are not meant to be taken as definitive this early in the process. Don’t live or die by anything this early, as some guys will sink and some will swim. If you want hype, well, I’m not your kind of scout. As we say here at Baseball Beginnings, the players will rank themselves.
