Terrerobytes: What would Chris Sale's season look like with Max Scherzer's support?

Chris Sale tops Baseball-Reference.com's American League WAR leaderboard at 6.1 wins. According to FanGraphs, he's fourth in the AL with 4.6 wins. Under normal circumstances, his start-in-start-out reliability would push him to the forefront of the awards-season chatter.

But as the AL Cy Young Race starts to sort itself out for the stretch run, you probably won't see Sale's name in the discussion for one big reason: he's 9-11. As long as Sale's not leading the league in ERA (he's fifth) and/or innings (13th), it's going to be nigh impossible for him to make a serious run at Max Scherzer and his 18-1 record.

That being the case, Daniel Zarchy at The Platoon Advantage compared Sale's game logs to Scherzer's to see how much the story might change if Sale's starts were paired with the Tigers' historic run support, while Scherzer's efforts received the backing of the White Sox offense.

I won't spoil the findings for you, but let's just say that Sale would probably be running away with the race.

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