May 23, 201411 yr I'm watching SportsTalk Live and the question was who would you take for one game and then for the next 5 years. Kaplan and some other jack wagon said they would take Sale because "he is a proven super star" but take Samardzija over a career. Samardzija hasn't consistantly had a good season over his career. Maybe 2 years ago when he went 9-13 with a 3.81 era. Chris Sale has a lifetime ERA under 3 as of today. 4 years younger and on an insane team friendly contract. I wanted to reach through the TV and just smack some sense into these Cubs homers. Discuss
May 23, 201411 yr Yeah, I'm sure they were searching for an angle to make Cubs fans happy. There's no question who the better player is.
May 23, 201411 yr QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ May 23, 2014 -> 06:04 PM) I'm watching SportsTalk Live and the question was who would you take for one game and then for the next 5 years. Kaplan and some other jack wagon said they would take Sale because "he is a proven super star" but take Samardzija over a career. Samardzija hasn't consistantly had a good season over his career. Maybe 2 years ago when he went 9-13 with a 3.81 era. Chris Sale has a lifetime ERA under 3 as of today. 4 years younger and on an insane team friendly contract. I wanted to reach through the TV and just smack some sense into these Cubs homers. Discuss Their larger point about taking JS was because of Sale's health questions, not career consistency. Pretty sure they all agreed Sale has better stuff
May 23, 201411 yr Is this a joke? Other than about the first ten starts this year the shark has been average at best. Sale is a bonafide ace. Sure he has some injury issues, but what pitcher doesnt these days.
May 23, 201411 yr QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ May 23, 2014 -> 06:04 PM) I'm watching SportsTalk Live and the question was who would you take for one game and then for the next 5 years. Kaplan and some other jack wagon said they would take Sale because "he is a proven super star" but take Samardzija over a career. Samardzija hasn't consistantly had a good season over his career. Maybe 2 years ago when he went 9-13 with a 3.81 era. Chris Sale has a lifetime ERA under 3 as of today. 4 years younger and on an insane team friendly contract. I wanted to reach through the TV and just smack some sense into these Cubs homers. Discuss Yeah Samardzija wants to be paid like a true ace & also believes it would be unbecoming of him to take any sort of hometown discount, and that doing so hurts the rest of the league. Meanwhile Chris Sale is better than him everywhere across the board and is locked up with us at a rate which will make it extremely easy for him to outperform his contract. I'd figure Sale is a far better teammate as well. Samardzija is good though. Let him be someone else's problem.
May 24, 201411 yr Sale pitches in the AL. Samardzija would have to pitch to a complete line up regularly for me to take him seriously as a star.
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