News: Yankees sign CC Sabathia
Update, 9:10 AM:
Sabathia’s deal from the Yankees is now worth $160 million over seven years, according to Buster Olney of ESPN, Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports.com and Jon Heyman of SI.com
‘Sabathia is still talking to the Yankees,’ said Olney on ESPN’s Mike and Mike in the Morning, adding, ‘They have not yet reached a preliminary agreement.’
Original, 7:07 AM:
“CC Sabathia is going to be a Yankee,” writes Joel Sherman in an exclusive report for the New York Post.
Sabathia agreed to a six-year, $140 contract last night, following three straight days of meetings with Yankees GM Brian Cashman, according to Sherman’s report.
This morning on ESPN’s Mike and Mike in the Morning, Sherman said, ‘the Yankees are trying to corner the market,’ as they have made the highest offer to A.J. Burnett, they have met with Scott Boras about Derek Lowe, and have been sent medical reports on Ben Sheets, who they met with in Vegas.
According to Sherman, the Yankees want a rotation with power arms, despite the injury risk associated with such a plan.
…why do you care…
Now that Sabathia has locked in with the Yankees, setting the off-season bar for pitchers, people in baseball expect players like Burnett, Lowe, Sheets and others to begin signing as well.
