{"id":590576,"date":"2026-02-24T17:48:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/590576\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:48:22","slug":"braves-sign-chris-sale-to-27-million-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/590576\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves sign Chris Sale to $27 million contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta\u2019s ace has no interest in going anywhere else.<\/p>\n

Former Cy Young-winning left-hander Chris Sale and the Braves agreed on a one-year, $27 million contract extension that includes a club option for $30 million in 2028, ESPN\u2019s Jeff Passan<\/a> reported Tuesday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The nine-time All-Star, 36, was set to hit free agency after the 2026 campaign but will stand pat in Atlanta for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

\"ChrisChris Sale agreed to a one-year contract extension with the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

Sale\u2019s extension comes a few weeks after he said that he\u2019d like to finish his career with the Braves, who took a chance on him following an injury-riddled 2023 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He returned the favor by immediately winning the National League Cy Young.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really like being here,\u201d Sale said of Atlanta on Feb. 13. \u201cThese guys obviously gave me a shot and kind of picked me up off the ground after I exited 2023 kind of limping into the offseason. Everyone\u2019s been great to me here, and I have really enjoyed being here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

About an hour later, Braves president of baseball operations Alex Anthopoulos expressed mutual interest in pursuing a reunion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m hoping Chris Sale is here as long as he wants to go and that would be our goal,\u201d Anthopoulos said. \u201cHe\u2019s one of my favorite players I\u2019ve had as a GM. I\u2019m grateful I\u2019ve had a chance to be part of his career and be a part of a team that has had him. Those guys are so hard to find and the value beyond what they do on the field is just immense. So, the hope is that he plays as long as he wants to, and it\u2019s going to be with the Braves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sale and Anthopoulos will address the media Tuesday morning, according to MLB.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"ChrisBraves pitcher Chris Sale pitches in a spring training game against the Minnesota Twins on Sunday. AP<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-6 southpaw with a filthy slider returns to Atlanta on the heels of another standout year that was cut short due to injury.<\/p>\n

Before a rib fracture ended his season in late June, Sale was firmly planted in Cy Young conversations \u2014 pitching to a 2.58 ERA and a 1.07 WHIP across 21 trips to the mound (125.2 innings).<\/p>\n

He boasted a towering 32.4% strikeout rate and ranked within MLB\u2019s 100th percentile for Breaking Run Value, according to Baseball Savant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Once seemingly a budding dynasty, Atlanta is coming off its first missed postseason since 2017 \u2014 a dominant run complete with a World Series championship in 2021.<\/p>\n

2023 MVP Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. reported to spring training feeling \u201c200 percent<\/a>\u201d following consecutive injury-riddled seasons. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta\u2019s ace has no interest in going anywhere else. Former Cy Young-winning left-hander Chris Sale and the Braves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,192,919,4,185,38606],"class_list":{"0":"post-590576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlantabraves","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-braves","13":"tag-chris-sale","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-contracts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116126870787943711","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}