Thoughts on the Yankees Heading Into 2020: Vol. 3
Welcome back to a world with no baseball. As if that wasn't sad enough, the Baseball Hall of Fame gave us all another gut punch earlier today. Oh well. Here are my final thoughts on the 2020 Yankees in advance of whatever season they're able fit in. The first two parts of this series can be found here and here . Hope all is happy and healthy in your neck of the woods. CC Sabathia's remarkable Yankee career is over In December 2008 George Steinbrenner responded to the first playoff-less season the Yankees had since 1994 with the fire of nearly a half billion dollars' worth of suns. The crown jewel of that spending spree was a big lefty named CC Sabathia, who had just nearly won the NL Cy Young despite playing only a half-season in that league. The Yankees enticed him with the largest contract offer ever for a pitcher, and he deserved every dollar of it, so expectations were sky high in New York. Sabathia proved right away that living up to those expect...