Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility (2025), lefty Carsten Charles (CC) Sabathia, Jr. played 19 seasons for three teams: Cleveland Guardians, Milwaukee Brewers and New York Yankees. Sabathia stood out immediately, placing second in Rookie Of the Year voting to Ichiro Suzuki, and later winning the Cy Young award in 2007. He continued to make his mark as he was traded to the Milwaukee Brewers mid-season, helping them make the playoffs for the first time in 26 years.
Sabathia’s 2008 seven-year, $161 million contract with the New York Yankees was, at the time, the largest contract ever signed by a pitcher. With the Yankees, Sabathia led all of MLB in wins in both 2009 and 2010, and he was voted 2009 AL Championship Series Most Valuable Player. He anchored the 2009 World Series Champion Yankees pitching staff in his first year with the team.
Evidence of how remarkable Sabathia’s career was from start to finish, when he retired following the 2019 season, he led all active major league players in career wins, career innings pitched, and career strikeouts.
He was named All-Star six times, won the Warren Spahn Award three time in a row (2007-2009), Became the all-time AL leader in strikeouts by a left-handed pitcher in 2017, and in 2019 became the seventeenth pitcher in MLB history to reach 3,000 strikeouts.
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Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility (2025), lefty Carsten Charles (CC) Sabathia, Jr. played 19 seasons for three teams: Cleveland Guardians, Milwaukee Brewers and New York Yankees. Sabathia stood out immediately, placing second in Rookie Of the Year voting to Ichiro Suzuki, and later winning the Cy Young award in 2007. He continued to make his mark as he was traded to the Milwaukee Brewers mid-season, helping them make the playoffs for the first time in 26 years.
Sabathia’s 2008 seven-year, $161 million contract with the New York Yankees was, at the time, the largest contract ever signed by a pitcher. With the Yankees, Sabathia led all of MLB in wins in both 2009 and 2010, and he was voted 2009 AL Championship Series Most Valuable Player. He anchored the 2009 World Series Champion Yankees pitching staff in his first year with the team.
Evidence of how remarkable Sabathia’s career was from start to finish, when he retired following the 2019 season, he led all active major league players in career wins, career innings pitched, and career strikeouts.
He was named All-Star six times, won the Warren Spahn Award three time in a row (2007-2009), Became the all-time AL leader in strikeouts by a left-handed pitcher in 2017, and in 2019 became the seventeenth pitcher in MLB history to reach 3,000 strikeouts.
Donated By: PepsiCo
Value: $200