Jake Arrieta Spills the Beans on Chris Sale

I don’t care which side of town you root for,  Chicago as a whole better appreciate the pair of aces we’ve been dealt on both sides of town. Yes we started this article out with a bad cards pun, but the fact remains, Chicago arguably has the two best pitchers in baseball. Chris Sale has been a beast since his call-up to the majors, and Jake Arrieta has had a stretch comparable only to Bob Gibson.

Last month we asked our readers who was better, Jake or Chris, and Chris Sale even chimmed in himself (not on our story ya silly knuckleheads).

“I don’t think there’s a question,” Sale said with a laugh Thursday when asked by ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt about who is the best pitcher in Chicago.

“I think, not only is he the best pitcher in Chicago, I think he’s the best pitcher in the league. I don’t think there’s an argument for that.”

While that is now debatable, and Clayton Kershaw has nudged his way back into the conversation, these two are crazy good and pitching at the top of their game. All of this build up has fans asking for a matchup of Chicago’s best when the two teams face off in back-to-back home and home series’ from July 25th through the 28th.

Hell, Jake himself wants to see that matchup.

“Of course,” he said. “I think that would be an exciting game, a low-scoring game, and the winner would be determined by who makes the (fewest) mistakes. A team like that is playing really well and with what we’re doing, it would be a dogfight.

“But that’s what you want to be a part of, games like that when you have to be on your best that night to beat an opponent like that.”

That would be stop what you’re doing, appointment tv. That game could break twitter, would be the most watched game on MLB.TV, it would have the possibility of being the most watched game of the season. While the two are currently offset by a day, you can bet every potential network that will air the games will be urging Joe Maddon and Robin Ventura to make the matchup happen.

The Matchup

Chris Sale – 9-0, 1.58 ERA, 62 K, 0.717 WHIP, 2.81 FIP 3.44 xFIP

Jake Arrieta – 7-0, 1.29 ERA, 55 K, 0.839 WHIP, 2.62 FIP, 3.05 xFIP

Needless to say, this would be complete awesomeness.

Jamie Baker

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