How Chris Sale's Total Average Compares to Similar Players

Chris Sale has posted a career Total Average of .174, well below the league average of .673 — production that has significantly underperformed against league baselines. His best Total Average season came in 2017, posting 1.0, well above the league average of .717 that year. The lowest point came in 2012 at .000, well below the league average of .680 that year. Significant season-to-season variance characterizes the Total Average profile — ranging from .000 to 1.0 — though the career average has remained well below league norms.

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Chris Sale Total Average Per Season

Chris Sale's Total 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 Total Average per season line chart

Chris Sale Total Average by Team

Chris Sale's career Total Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Chris Sale career Total Average by team bar chart

Chris Sale Total Average Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Chris Sale's career Total 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 Total Average year-over-year waterfall chart

Chris Sale Total Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Chris Sale's seasonal Total 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 Total Average distribution box chart versus comparable players

Chris Sale Total Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Chris Sale's MLB career with Total 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.
Chris Sale Total Average season-by-season breakdown table