Week 21 Pitchers Poll: Chris Sale Falls Into First Place

The White Sox set a Pitchers Poll record this week, though it's not the kind of record you want to see being set.

More Sox pitchers scored in the negative this week than in any other week of the season. Congratulations to Jake Peavy, Jose Quintana, Jesse Crain and Francisco Liriano for this small piece of history.

Though when you look at the table, you'll see there were plenty of other pitchers close to joining that foursome.

RANK	PLAYER	POINTS	LW	+/-
1	Chris Sale	261	2	3
2	Jake Peavy	258	1	-2
3	Gavin Floyd	149	3	0
4	Jose Quintana	125	4	-2
5	Phil Humber	85	5	2
5	Addison Reed	85	6	3
7	Matt Thornton	82	7	3
8	Nate Jones	79	8	9
9	Hector Santiago	65	9	11
10	Jesse Crain	52	10	-1
11	Dylan Axelrod	47	12	10
12	Francisco Liriano	39	11	-2
13	John Danks	34	13	0
14	Brett Myers	22	15	2
15	Zach Stewart	21	14	0
16	Donnie Veal	18	16	7
17	Will Ohman	10	17	0
18	Eric Stults	7	18	0
19	Brian Omogrosso	4	19	0
20	Brian Bruney	2	20	0
21	Leyson Septimo	1	21	0
21	Deunte Heath	1	NA	1
23	Jhan Marinez	0	22	0
24	Pedro Hernandez	-4	23	0

Honestly, the week Chris Sale overtakes Peavy is the week Sale scores only 3 points in two starts, and gets there only because Jake Peavy lost points in his start. Talk about backing your way into first place.

The only two White Sox starters who didn't crap the bed this week were the two who aren't a part of the actual rotation: Hector Santiago and Dylan Axelrod. If the playoffs were to start today I'd nominate those two to start Games 1 and 2, I don't care the order.

Who's with me?

Last week's rankings can be found here.