So three years into his 5-year, $145 million contract with the Red Sox, Sale has thrown 48.1 innings over 11 starts, good for 1.0 bWAR.

Sale and Strasburg oughta get a room.

Sale is expected to make a full recovery, and be ready for spring training leading up to the 2023 season.

...when he will promptly contract Yellow Fever.

So was it a bike accident or a "bike accident"?

Sale is expected to make a full recovery, and be ready for spring training leading up to the 2023 season.

By who!? By who!!!!?

So was it a bike accident or a "bike accident"?

It's got to be 4 to 1 against an actual bike accident. Looking forward to finding out what really happened.

Sale and Strasburg oughta get a room.

Hey, Sale's at least been good during the rare times when he is healthy.

Probably for the best...give him some time to recover and I'm sure he'll be back next year and throw 250, maybe 300 innings.

Heyward for Sale: who says no?

Cabrera for Sale: who says no?

It wasn't actually while he was riding the bike. He started out on the bike and things were going well. At some point he slowed down and the brakes made a little squeaking noise, an imperfection that made him mad. So he picked up the bike and slammed it repeatedly into a large oak tree until the tree fell down on a nearby house. Then, mad about the house getting in the way of the falling tree, he went to the house and started punching a car that was in the driveway. That turned out to be a police car. The officer - who had been in the vehicle at the time - arrested Sale and brought him in for processing. While in a jail cell Sale proceeded to take out his anger on the toilet, a bunk, and a couple of cinder blocks in the wall. Eventually an officer came to release him and asked him to sign a statement, which he did. But when Sale lifted the sheet of paper to hand back to the officer, he felt something crack in his right wrist.

vi, in the old days, that's what we would have called a Primey.

Perfection. Literally LOL'd at that.

Choosing this walking IL stint instead of Mookie was a monstrosity of a blunder

My money's on the real story being much closer to [10] than the quote in the intro except to say that Sale would have injured himself far sooner in the process.

I want it to be like #10, but I get the feeling that no one in the press is going to shield Sale from himself so we'd know anything salacious pretty much immediately.

Heyward for Sale: who says no?

Cabrera for Sale: who says no?

Magilla Gorilla for sale

OK. I wonder what the chances are of the following:

After the 2019 season, when the Red Sox determined that re-signing Mookie was going to be tough, they decided to trade him. Today, people remember the trade as basically Betts in exchange for Verdugo and prospects...but that wasn't the trade. The Red Sox actually sent David Price to Los Angeles as well, and that was a sneaky-big part of the trade for Boston. He was owed $32m a year for 2020-2022, and the Dodgers agreed to pay $48m of the remaining $96m, saving the Red Sox $48m. That's a big part of why the return for Betts wasn't as big as people expected.

Now, it is the 2022 off-season, and the Red Sox may determine that re-signing Devers is going to be tough...so they decide to trade him. They owe Sale $27.5m for each of the next two years. Could you not see Bloom and the management team deciding that they are going to shake off the final vestiges of the Dombrowski years by packaging them together, like Betts/Price, and getting back a young cost-controlled players and some prospects?

The thing about Sale is that if he is healthy, he will probably be very good. But his health history has gone from "checkered" to "absurd". I mean, at what point do you start blaming Sale for not realizing that he is extremely fragile, and that he should (for at least the next two years) basically live in bubble wrap, and lock in on getting 150 good innings in 2023 and 2024?

Hey, Sale's at least been good during the rare times when he is healthy.

I'd be hesitant to pass judgement on 30 IP spread out over 3 seasons.

I LOL'ed at #10 as well. Keep up the great posts, v.i.!

I'd be hesitant to pass judgement on 30 IP spread out over 3 seasons.

Be kind - it was 48.1 IP (not counting rehab stints). That works out to just north of $620,000 per out, or at an average of 4 pitches for each of the 208 bfp, $108,000 per pitch.

He broke it washing Jeff Kent's truck while standing in a big hole on Yoenis Cespedes' ranch.

I'm shocked that no one has made a "washing his truck" reference. (Primates, for shame...!)

Was Jeff Kent around?

I mentioned him in the Heyward thread so ...

Adrian Gonzalez to the Dodgers, Dodgers eat Crawford contract.

Mookie Betss to the Dodgers, Dodgers eat David Price contract. His contract comes off the books at the end of the season.

Dodgers will need a 3B next year so Devers and Sale to the Dodgers does seem inevitable.

Be kind - it was 48.1 IP (not counting rehab stints). That works out to just north of $620,000 per out, or at an average of 4 pitches for each of the 208 bfp, $108,000 per pitch.

I was talking about Strasburg.

Will he be ready in time for some lessons at the Jim Lonborg Ski School?

As an SF bicyclist who has gone down a couple times (in 20 years) I am always interested to hear about the crash details...

Hey, Sale's at least been good during the rare times when he is healthy.

So has Strasburg. Not as good as Sale, but still good.

It has been remiss of me not to mention earlier that old Cub pitcher Steve Trout also once hurt himself falling off a bike -- a stationary bike in his case. I suppose we can blame genetics in that case.

I can't outdo #10 but here's my guess. Sale was returning home after visiting Todd Helton, who gave him some deer meat. He was pedaling along with the package of meat tied to the bike. He saw a spider and recoiled, flying over the handlebars and straight through a plate glass coffee table.

Keep your day jobs.

Maybe he was playing hoops with Greinke.

I was talking about Strasburg.

He makes Sale look like a bargain! 31.1 IP and 145 bfp works out to over $1.1 million per out and $180,000 per pitch.

Dodgers will need a 3B next year so Devers and Sale to the Dodgers does seem inevitable.

So the Red Sox are now to the Dodgers what the KC Athletics were to the Yankees.

I hope no one's besmirching the Punto trade!

#10 is RDF

I felt "fracturing wrist lifting a sheet of paper" sounded like an authentic Red Sox injury. The only thing that would make it more authentic to the Red Sox was if the whole bicycle/tree/house/car/arrest scenario happened 3 years ago and Boston finally diagnosed it last week.