Chris Sale ERA

Chris Sale Career ERA Overview

Chris Sale's ERA was 3.03 for his 12-year Major League Baseball career. 2010 was his best season when his ERA was 1.93 and his worst season was 2019 when his ERA was 4.4. Chris Sale is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (4.3461226399548), Millenial (4.4765613485252), mlb (4.3614031148122), SP (4.3392668544321), and Y (3.0750522047158) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Earned run average (ERA) is a metric that shows how many earned runs on average, a pitcher or team's pitcher, gives up over the course of nine innings. It is calculated by dividing earned runs by innings pitched then multiplying the result by 9. Generally, for ERA, lower is better. (Source)

Chris Sale Lifetime ERA and Similar Stats

Stats similar to ERA for Chris Sale

	Chris Sale ERA	Chris Sale Component ERA	Chris Sale Defense Independent ERA
Career	3.03	2.71	2.79
Season Avg.	2.96	2.77	2.79
162 Game Avg.	3.03	2.71	2.79
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Chris Sale ERA By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Chris Sale's yearly ERA for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, SP, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Chris Sale ERA By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Chris Sale's career ERA changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career ERA Chris Sale had at that season in his career.

Chris Sale ERA By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Chris Sale and related player groups by summarizing ERA for each season played by Chris Sale. The box represents the middle 50% of the data for each player with the line in the box being the median value. The whiskers represent the ranges for the top and bottom 25% of the data. Review the spread and medians to draw your conclusions!

Chris Sale ERA Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Chris Sale ERA stats per season for his full MLB career with the aggregations’ sum, average, minimum, maximum, and median. Also included, for comparison, are season player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, SP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Chris Sale career.

Note: "—" indicate there were no players for comparison for a specific year. Most commonly this happens for the hall of fame group where there may not have been a hall of famer playing that year.