Became the highest draft pick in program history when he was selected 13th overall in the 2010 MLB Draft by the Chicago White Sox …Seven-time MLB All-Star ...Became the third player to earn three-consecutive starts in the All-Star Game in 2018 (only since 1955) … 2018 World Series Champion with the Boston Red Sox …One of only a few players in MLB history that have thrown both the first and last pitches of the World Series ...MLB career leader in strikeout-walk ratio (5.32) … Quickest player to reach 2,000 career strikeouts in MLB history (1,626 IP) ... Reached 1,500 MLB career strikeouts in the second-fewest innings pitched (1,290) ...That effort was the record before Stephen Strasburg (Washington Nationals) did so in 1,272 innings …Part of the inaugural ASUN Hall of Fame Class in 2015 … 2010 National Player of the Year (Collegiate Baseball) … ABCA/Rawlings First Team All-American (2010) …CBF National Pitcher of the Year Finalist (2010) … Yahoo! Sports All-American (2010) … Baseball America All-American (2010) …Golden Spikes Award Runner-Up (2010) …Collected both ASUN Pitcher of the Year and First Team All-ASUN honors as a junior in 2010 …First Team All-ASUN selection in 2009 …ASUN All-Freshman Team in 2008 …Holds the Green & Blue career records in strikeouts (293) and strikeouts/nine inn. game (11.53) …His FGCU career ERA of 2.52 (228.2 IP) ranks third all-time in program history and 12th amongst league pitchers … Along with a perfect 11-0 record and 2.01 ERA over 17 games in 2010, he struck out a national-best 146 batters while walking only 14, which remains the fifth-best single-season total in ASUN history ... Following that season, he became the first player in program history to be named an All-American … He finished his career with FGCU – the only Division-I school to offer him a scholarship – with a 20-4 record in 52 appearances ... FGCU has won five ASUN regular-season championships since moving to D-I, three of which (2008, '09, '10) came during his tenure.

Chris Sale
"This is surreal and humbling to be a member of the inaugural class in the FGCU Hall of Fame. When you look at the names on the list and only two played games, that makes it such a significant honor when you think about the importance of those individuals. This is something I can truly appreciate as FGCU is where everything really started for me and it's the place I call home."