Great player but you are talking about a guy with a bad injury history with only 6 years in the league.
Saying Mauer is a HOF lock is a big reach.
According to estimates we've compiled from Alan Greenspan, Goldman Sachs and Kei Igawa Corporate Headquarters, the Yankees have spent about $93 billion on free agents over the years. But have any of them earned their billions more than CC Sabathia?
Sheez, is this guy a winning machine, or what? He won 19 games in his first season in New York, went 21-7 last year and cashed in 16 more wins this season before he even flipped the calendar to August.
Now "wins" may not be the most revealing stat on modern-day earth in telling us how pitchers are actually pitching. But it tells us something in this case. If CC just wins three more games this season, here's what it would tell us about him:
• He'd be the first pitcher to win 19 games or more in three straight seasons since Randy Johnson did it for the 2000-02 Diamondbacks.
• And the first to do it in the AL since Dave Stewart ripped off four 20-win seasons in a row for the 1987-90 A's.
• And just the fifth to do it in the free-agent era, joining only Stewart, the Unit, Tom Glavine (1991-93) and Jim Palmer (1976-78).
• Shockingly, CC would be only the fourth Yankees pitcher ever to win 19 or more in three straight seasons -- and no, Whitey Ford, Ron Guidry and Andy Pettitte never did it. The three who did (Jack Chesbro, Red Ruffing and Vic Raschi) pulled it off between 1903 and 1951.
• Here's the proof the Yankees have gotten their $69 million worth: CC would be the first free-agent starter ever to do this in his first three seasons after signing with a new team. Which means, apparently, Darren Dreifort and Chan Ho Park fell just a little bit short.
Sheez, is this guy a winning machine, or what? He won 19 games in his first season in New York, went 21-7 last year and cashed in 16 more wins this season before he even flipped the calendar to August.
Now "wins" may not be the most revealing stat on modern-day earth in telling us how pitchers are actually pitching. But it tells us something in this case. If CC just wins three more games this season, here's what it would tell us about him:
• He'd be the first pitcher to win 19 games or more in three straight seasons since Randy Johnson did it for the 2000-02 Diamondbacks.
• And the first to do it in the AL since Dave Stewart ripped off four 20-win seasons in a row for the 1987-90 A's.
• And just the fifth to do it in the free-agent era, joining only Stewart, the Unit, Tom Glavine (1991-93) and Jim Palmer (1976-78).
• Shockingly, CC would be only the fourth Yankees pitcher ever to win 19 or more in three straight seasons -- and no, Whitey Ford, Ron Guidry and Andy Pettitte never did it. The three who did (Jack Chesbro, Red Ruffing and Vic Raschi) pulled it off between 1903 and 1951.
• Here's the proof the Yankees have gotten their $69 million worth: CC would be the first free-agent starter ever to do this in his first three seasons after signing with a new team. Which means, apparently, Darren Dreifort and Chan Ho Park fell just a little bit short.
