Chris Sale

I feel like this was like a week.

It was relatively easy.

Just very thankful for it, though.

Appreciative of, obviously, Bebe and my agency taking care of it and Alex and the Braves' willingness to get this done.

No, I certainly appreciate that, and I don't take that lightly.

You know, I want to represent, you know, this organization the right way.

I want to, you know, do all the right things and go out and, you know, play the game I love to play.

And, again, just very thankful for that, and I know the responsibility that comes with that and, you know, just try to live up to that.

That was important to me.

You know, you look at this organization, you know, you kind of take a wide frame and take a step back and look at everything as a whole.

We have a great manager.

We have a great front office.

We have a core group of players here that are going to be here for a while.

We've got some good young talent coming up, and I'm excited for that, and I want to be here for that and get you guys off my back asking me if I'm going to retire at the end of this year.

You'll get to ask those questions in a year or two now, so get to delay that.

Yeah, again, I've never been a free agent.

I've never been in this situation.

I appreciate kind of knowing what the future looks like.

And I guess I'm just bad at turning down contracts.

I was the first person to sign in the first round when I got drafted.