C.C. Sabathia

Full Name: Carsten Charles Sabathia	Primary Position: P
Height/Weight: 6' 7"/300	First Game: April 8, 2001
Birthdate: July 21, 1980	MLB Experience: 7 years
Birthplace: Vallejo, California
Bat/Throw: Left/Left

Biography[]

Carsten Charles Sabathia and his wife, Amber, have one son, Carsten Charles III (born 9/15/03) and one daughter, Jaeden Arie (9/20/05). Sabathia resides in Fairfield, CA outside his hometown of Vallejo, CA (near Oakland). C.C. attended Vallejo Senior High School where he compiled a mark of 6-0 with a 0.77 ERA (46.2IP, 14H, 4ER, 14BB, 82SO) during his senior season.

Coming out of the draft he was the top high school prospect coming in Northern California according to Baseball America. Sabathia was also an all-conference tight end in football at Vallejo and had scholarship offers to play college football and had actually signed a letter of intent at Hawaii. C.C. was selected to the 28-man 2000 United States Olympic Team Roster and appeared in one pre-Olympic tournament game in Sydney, Australia, but was not on the official 24-man, Gold Medal-winning roster.

Sabathia has been a regular participant in the Cleveland Indians Winter Press Caravan and has been involved in numerous community endeavors during his tenure with Cleveland, including: OfficeMax Parent-Child Clinics, the Larry Doby RBI Program, Red Cross' "Fire Prevention Week," the Cleveland Scholarship Program, Grand Slam Summer Literacy, High Achievers and the Giant Eagle week-long baseball camps. C.C. is a regular visitor to area hospitals as part of the "Tribe Loving Care" program. He purchased 275 turkeys at Thanksgiving in 2002 for the St. James AME Church and the Greater Cleveland AIDS Taskforce and donated 200 turkey baskets to the Bethany Baptist Church along with the Cavs' Drew Gooden in 2004. He also donated $3,000 to the Cleveland Food Bank for Thanksgiving meals in 2005.

Sabathia is donating a total of $250,000 over the life of his current contract with Cleveland to the Larry Doby RBI Program via a donation to Cleveland Indians Charities.

In California, he participated in the Oakland Ballet's rendition of "The Nutcracker" during the 2003 off-season, he organized the Sabathia Baseball Clinic in his hometown of Vallejo in 2003 and annually donates food around the holidays to the Vallejo Boys & Girls Club and in 2005 teamed with Barry Zito and Curt Schilling in a program entitled "StrikeoutsForTroops" a national program which provides some "comforts of home" and assists with family travel and housing expenses for service members who are being treated at military hospitals.

C.C. personally contributed $100.00 for every strikeout in 2000 and raised a total of $16,100. (Parts of bio courtesy of Indians.com)

Sabathia won the 2007 American League Cy Young Award, garnering 19 first-place votes.

Scouting Report[]

Statistics[]

Pitching Stats[]

Year	Team	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP	BAA
2001	CLE	33	33	17	5	0	0	180.1	149	93	88	19	95	171	4.39	1.35	.228
2002	CLE	33	33	13	11	2	0	210.0	198	109	102	17	88	149	4.37	1.36	.252
2003	CLE	30	30	13	9	2	1	197.2	190	85	79	19	66	141	3.60	1.30	.255
2004	CLE	30	30	11	10	1	1	188.0	176	90	86	20	72	139	4.12	1.32	.252
2005	CLE	31	31	15	10	1	0	196.2	185	92	88	19	62	161	4.03	1.26	.248
2006	CLE	28	28	12	11	6	2	192.2	182	83	69	17	44	172	3.22	1.17	.247
2007	CLE	34	34	19	7	4	1	241.0	238	94	86	20	37	209	3.21	1.14	.259
Career		219	219	100	63	16	5	1406.1	1318	646	598	131	464	1142	3.83	1.27	.249

Fielding Stats[]

Year	Team	POS	G	GS	INN	PO	TC	A	E	DP	FPCT
2001	CLE	P	33	33	180	3	25	21	1	1	.960
2002	CLE	P	33	33	210	2	22	19	1	2	.955
2003	CLE	P	30	30	197	7	28	19	2	2	.929
2004	CLE	P	30	30	188	1	18	17	0	2	1.000
2005	CLE	P	31	31	196	2	21	17	2	0	.905
2006	CLE	P	28	28	192	7	25	15	3	1	.880
2007	CLE	P	34	34	241	1	26	24	1	1	.962
Total		P	223	223	1427	24	169	135	10	10	.941

Batting Stats[]

Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2001	CLE	33	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2002	CLE	33	5	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	.200	.333	.200	.533
2003	CLE	31	6	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000
2004	CLE	30	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500
2005	CLE	2	6	1	2	1	1	4	0	1	.333	.333	1.000	1.333
2006	CLE	3	9	0	2	0	0	2	0	5	.222	.222	.222	.444
2007	CLE	1	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	.667	.667	.667	1.333
Career		133	37	2	11	1	1	6	1	10	.297	.316	.405	.721

Awards[]

2007 Cy Young Award Winner
2001 Topps All-Star Rookie Team
3-time AL All-Star 2003, 2004 & 2007

Transactions[]

June 2, 1998: Selected by the Cleveland Indians in the 1st round (20th pick) of the 1998 amateur draft. Player signed June 29, 1998.
July 7, 2008: Traded by the Cleveland Indians to the Milwaukee Brewers for a player to be named later, Rob Bryson (minors), Zach Jackson, and Matt LaPorta. The Milwaukee Brewers sent Michael Brantley (October 3, 2008) to the Cleveland Indians to complete the trade.
December 20, 2008: Signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees.