The White Sox suspended starting pitcher Chris Sale for five days after an incident over the team’s jerseys.
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Ventura told MLB.com he saw no reason why he needed to sit down and talk with Sale before his next scheduled start, Thursday against the Cubs.
The suspension comes to $250,000 of his $9.15 million salary. Chicago’s ace told Scott Merkin of MLB.com he did not want those uniforms to be in the team’s plans on a day he was scheduled to start.
The core of his beef is that the White Sox, in his eyes, prioritized the added business of throwback night over the winning and losing of baseball games, and their apparent disinterest in listening to his concerns represented a betrayal of sorts. Sale dislikes these jerseys because he finds them uncomfortable, and he was pitching that day, so he had a vested interest in the team’s unis.
With the White Sox struggling this season – they are two games under the. “It does not move the needle one iota in terms of his value to this club, his value to any other club that may be interested in his services or the likelihood of him being moved or kept whatsoever. None of those things will be impacted by these events”. Our guys in this clubhouse deserve, in every single game, the best opportunity to go achieve that goal of winning a championship.
That being said, Sale wasn’t ready to back down from his anti-throwback stance.
But Chicago wants to assure you, this hasn’t changed his trade status.
White Sox manager Robin Ventura said he doesn’t think the incident will have an impact on whether the team will trade him.
Sale hasn’t spoken on the matter yet, so there is no telling what he was thinking when he destroyed the uniforms.
Ventura said Sale, who is from Lakeland and starred at Florida Gulf Coast University, might have to mend fences when he returns. We both expressed remorse that it got to this point.
So you might have the dicey situation of Sale wanting the manager to take the fight upstairs, while the wonks upstairs probably want Ventura to tamp down the loud kid. Absolutely not. Do I regret saying business should not be first before winning?
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Ranaudo is filling in for left-hander Carlos Rodon, who made a rehab start with Charlotte on Monday night for the first time since spraining his left wrist. In fact, the majority of the statements from Sale’s teammates and coaches included in reports seem to shy away from saying anything overtly negative about Sale’s outburst, perhaps because he is a very strong team presence the White Sox can not afford to alienate before the playoff stretch. They spoke again on Sunday. We’ve seen that at times spill between the white lines.
