Mike Petriello

And I think sale is kind of an interesting case because he's sort of on the borderline of the old school and the new school.

Like we are either at the end or nearing the end of the last great generation of starting pitchers and sense of like Verlander, Kershaw, Scherzer, these guys that have retired or will be retiring soon.

And they're a little bit more of the old school 220 inning horses and

And Sale was that guy.

You know, he has four seasons of over 200 innings, which to even say that right now is incredible.

Then he disappeared for a couple years because he was hurt.

And I think if he had not come back from that, you know, I think if his career had sort of sputtered out the way it seemed like it was going to the last couple years in Boston.

I don't think he was getting into the hall.

I think he needed a pretty good second act, and he has shown that.

He's having a season this year where he is worthy of winning the Cy Young Award, and he won't because the National League race is insane.

Otani and Christopher Sanchez and Jacob Mizorowski, and no one's talking about Chase Burns, and also Yamamoto and Skeens.

Those guys are really good.

So Chris Sale probably finishes, I don't know, eighth in the Cy Young, but that's not a slight to him.

He's having a year that is worthy of the award.

So at the end of the day, I think you look at his career and you say, well, he's had the peak.

Obviously, he's actually had two peaks because he had a pre-injury peak and a post-injury peak.

He'll have enough bulk, even though he missed time, because I think people will look at four 200-inning seasons.

You know, he's got awards.

He's got the reputation.

And I've kind of gone from, yeah, I think if we rethink the way we think about starters, he'll get into he's almost a slam dunk just based on what he has done in this second act with the Braves.