PLAYING TIME: Sale returns to rotation
May 11 2012
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Sale returns to rotation
Chris Sale (LHP, CHW) reportedly is scheduled to start Saturday, ending his brief stint as closer seemingly before it even began. CHW had removed Sale from the rotation May 4, designating him closer amidst reports of elbow tenderness and erstwhile rookie closer Héctor Santiago's (LHP, CHW) ineffectiveness. Sale's potential Saturday start would come with two days' rest since a one-inning May 8 relief appearance. Each of his previous five outings as a starter yielded a PQS-DOM mark, as elaborated in our May 10 PTT column.
While Sale's return to the rotation seems to pave a path for rookie Addison Reed (RHP, CHW), initial reports indicate CHW will adopt a closer-by-committee approach for...
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