Yankees close to signing CC Sabathia, at 7 years and $160 million

Yankee’s GM Brian Cashman has been meeting with Sabathia this entire week. Cashman flew to San Francisco to see CC at his home late last night.

As of this morning, according to Buster Olney on ESPN’s Mike and Mike in the Morning, Sabathia’s deal from the Yankees is now worth $160 million over seven years.

This is up from the $140 over 6 years that was the originally reported offer. However, still no official word from CC or the Yankees.

What is certain is that nearly overnight Sabathia will go from a beloved player to one of the leagues most hated. All I can say is that pitching in the National League will do wonders for your career. Welcome to the AL East where the big boys are separated from the rest of the pack.

The NL is no AL. With the Brewers, CC could have seen the bottom feeders like the Pirates or Reds 40 times a year but now things are going to get a little tougher. In 2008 CC was 4-1 against these two bottom of the pack NL Central teams on his way to going 11-2 for the Brew-crew. On the other hand in his first two  games against the Cubs, CC gave up an unimpressive 4 runs each time out.

Previously the MO on this guy was that he couldn’t win in big games. He is 2-3 in the playoffs with a 7.92 ERA.

CC has never been as dominate as he was the second half of 2008. He was playing in the much weaker NL. He was playing for a contract and that is just what he got. I hope he is ready to back it up; he has the skeleton of Barry Zito hanging over his locker in New York.