CC’s day has come.
Yankees legend CC Sabathia was officially inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday afternoon.
The left-hander was the definition of a workhorse over his 18-year big-league career.
Sabathia spent his first seven seasons pitching in Cleveland, he was traded to the Brewers ahead of the 2008 deadline, and then decided to sign in the Bronx as he hit free agency for the first time in his career.
He called joining the Yanks the best decision him and his wife ever made during his speech.
“I loved playing in Cleveland and Milwaukee, but when it was time to go somewhere new I thought I wanted to go to LA and play for the Dodgers, close to home — I definitely didn’t want to go to New York to play for the Yankees, the furthest team away,” he said.
“Winning mattered and money made a difference, but my free agent decision was really about where we were going to spend the rest of our lives — we said to ourselves, we’ll play anywhere on the planet as long as our family is together.
“When Amber and I were kids, things in our family were inconsistent. Now we have three kids of our own and we wanted to plant roots, that’s what we talked about — that’s how we made the best decision we’ve ever made.”
Sabathia finished with 251 wins and a 3.74 ERA across 3,577.1 innings of work.
He made three All-Star appearances over his 11 years with the Yankees, finished in the top-five in MVP voting three times, and won his lone World Series title (2009).
Welcome to baseball immortality, @CC_Sabathia. pic.twitter.com/XY7WrIFkvj
— National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾ (@baseballhall) July 27, 2025
Ichiro enters the Hall
CC wasn’t the only Yankee to be enshrined on Sunday, Ichiro Suzuki also entered the Hall.
Ichiro spent the first 11 years of his career with the Mariners before being traded to the Bronx.
At 40 years old, he played two and a half seasons with the Yanks.
“Thank you to the New York Yankees,” he said during his speech. “I know you guys are here today for CC, but that’s okay he deserves it a lot — I enjoyed my two and a half years in pinstripes, thank you for giving me the experience.”
Ichiro was a lifetime .311 hitter, who accumulated 4,367 hits in his professional career between NPB and MLB and also holds the MLB single-season hit record (262, set in 2004).
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