FACTS/FLUKES: Sale, Melky Cabrera, Kazmir, Martin, Uehara

Sale showing no rust after DL stint..When Chris Sale (LHP, CHW) missed a month earlier this year with a flexor muscle strain, his owners were probably concerned that he wouldn’t be the same once he returned. Rest easy; the only one of his five post-DL starts that wasn’t a PQS-5 outing was a rain-shortened outing.

Year   IP   ERA  xERA  H%  S%  Ctl   Dom  Cmd  SwK   G/L/F    hr/f  BPV 
====  ===  ====  ====  ==  ==  ===  ====  ===  ===  ========  ====  ===
2010   23  1.93  2.61  28  87  3.9  12.3  3.2  10%  51/12/37   11%  147  
2011   71  2.79  3.00  28  78  3.4  10.0  2.9  12%  50/18/32   11%  116
2012  192  3.05  3.27  30  77  2.4   9.0  3.8  11%  45/23/32   12%  120
2013  214  3.07  2.94  30  76  1.9   9.5  4.9  11%  47/21/32   13% ...

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