It sucks, but CC Sabathia is back on the disabled list for the fourth time this season. I'm sure it's not the journey he saw himself on at the beginning of the season. It's not what I saw either. No one thinks that CC is the same pitcher we saw back in 2009. Time gets the best of us all, but he's still an important piece to this team. More than anything, I want to see him go out on his terms and not because he isn't healthy enough to finish what he started.
But just like the New York Post wrote this weekend, there is no guarantee that CC will pitch again. There are no guarantees in life or in baseball but there is always hope. That's one thing I have been telling myself this weekend. I'm not giving up hope. CC doesn't want his last outing to be this past weekend and in pain. Sometimes the body just doesn't cooperate and it just gives out.
Aaron Boone said he won't speculate on what will happen next with CC, read more HERE. CC has done a lot for this team and he's been a warrior, just like Boone said. CC deserves to pitch one last time at Yankee stadium and to leave it all out on the field. I don't want to think about CC walking away from the game without a proper send off.
I want to see CC walk off the mound at Yankee stadium to a sold out crowd and loud cheers. That is the send off he deserves. I want those to be his final moments in a Yankee uniform.
We are pulling for you CC, Friday wasn't the end of your journey. Not yet. That's what I choose to believe.
BYB Managing Editor
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Well I personally think they overpaid him for this year.
ReplyDeleteI thought he was done last year and I thought if he came back it would be an incentive based contract starting at say 2 million with bonus on innings pitched , wins , and no trips to the IL.
I personally hope he does not come back this year let him just be a spectator and count his money.
They treat him like he has led them to several WS and it was only 1.In fact Cashman treated him better than Bernie Williams who was productive in his last season but only got a minor league offered contract .
Sorry if it offends anyone but in 10 years here he had maybe 3 good seasons other were 5th starter type and they sure aren't worth 25 mil a year .
I know He has his team's back they say but really he would have his team's back if he had pitched as good as his mouth.
While we are on subject of players not needed , Edwin Encarnation is one of them . We have better young hitters than him , who can get on base at a better pace and they cost a whole lot less than 20 million ( I know we're not paying all of it) and will probably buy him out at 5 million which is more than Voit and Ford will make with more production . Time to clean house , eat Ellsbury's contract or pay him cash under the table to retire and Hicks like Bird can't stay healthy . We had a chance to trade Hicks for good starting pitching coning off back to back decent seasons and didn't.
Gardner has perhaps earned another year , can't remember him ever not fading in the 2nd half until this year.
Is probably time to see new faces next year.