He thought that he was ready to call it quits. “We come up short and I was done,” Sabathia said Tuesday. “I was over it. I was ready to retire.” Sabathia made that comment as he looked ...

CC Sabathia was officially announced for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, the six-foot-six lefty revealed on X that he considered hanging it up after the 2017 season until a former player ...

CC Sabathia (@CC_Sabathia) January 21 ... Sabathia privately contemplated retirement after that ’17 season, but was nudged to continue pitching by an offseason phone call with MLB Network’s Harold ...

CC Sabathia’s career ended abruptly. Yes, the longtime Yankees left-hander had announced months earlier his plans to retire after the 2019 season, but his final appearance did not go as ...

As Jayson Stark pointed out in The Athletic, here is how CC ... a retirement and a five-year waiting period away from receiving his own plaque). But, possibly the best case for Sabathia being ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — After his retirement, CC Sabathia grew fond of telling people who asked that he was born and raised in Vallejo, California, but he “grew up in Cleveland.” On Tuesday ...

CC Sabathia might not have made it to Cooperstown ... After the 2017 season, I was contemplating retirement and it was he who pushed me to strive for the Hall of Fame knowing what it would take ...

CC Sabathia made some richly deserved history ... given how much the team and its fans have embraced him after his retirement. Don't hold it against Cleveland fans if they're a little sore at ...

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CC Sabathia was a workhorse ... “I was over it. I was ready to retire. And I get a call from [retired infielder] Harold Reynolds and he started telling me all these numbers, all these different ...