How Chris Sale's Equivalent Average Compares to Similar Players
Chris Sale has posted a career Equivalent Average of .296, well below the league average of .745 — production that has significantly underperformed against league baselines. His best Equivalent Average season came in 2017, posting 1.0, well above the league average of .775 that year. The lowest point came in 2014 at .000, well below the league average of .724 that year. Significant season-to-season variance characterizes the Equivalent Average profile — ranging from .000 to 1.0 — though the career average has remained well below league norms.
Chris Sale Lifetime Equivalent Average
Stats similar to Equivalent Average for Chris Sale
| Chris Sale
Equivalent Average |
|---|
| Career | 0.296 |
| Season Avg. | 0.296 |
| 162 Game Avg. | 0.296 |
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Chris Sale Equivalent Average Per Season
Chris Sale's Equivalent Average for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — National League, Hall of Fame, SP, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Chris Sale Equivalent Average by Team
Chris Sale's career Equivalent Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Chris Sale Equivalent Average Year-Over-Year Change
A waterfall chart tracking how Chris Sale's career Equivalent Average shifted from season to season. Each bar represents the change added to his career total that year, making peak and decline phases easy to spot.
Chris Sale Equivalent Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players
Each box summarizes Chris Sale's seasonal Equivalent Average alongside a selected comparison group across all seasons he played. The box covers the middle 50% of seasons, the center line is the median, and the whiskers extend to the min and max. A tighter box means more consistency; a higher median means more output. Use the selector to switch comparison groups.
Chris Sale Equivalent Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown
Every season of Chris Sale's MLB career with Equivalent Average alongside league, Hall of Fame, positional, birth region, and country-of-birth averages for that year. Career totals include sum, average, min, max, and median.
Note: A dash (—) means no qualifying players existed in that comparison group for that season. Most commonly this happens for the Hall of Fame group.
