Five Facts: CC Sabathia

I'm not sure if anyone has noticed, but this blog's address contains Sabathia's number, 52. He is never going to be able to pitch like he did in the postseason of '09, but I do hope that he bounces back and finishes his career well so that he can get into the Hall of Fame some day.

Here are five facts about CC Sabathia.
Other five facts can be found in here: Ellsbury and Betances, Tanaka, Rivera, Ruth



CC Sabathia has the most complete games of any active pitcher.
1. Sabathia (37) 2. Colon (35) 3. Buehrle, Lee (29) 5. Hudson (26) 6. Burnett (24) 7. Hernandez (23) 8. Shields (22) 9. Wainwright (21) 10. Verlander (20). Kershaw is right behind Verlander at 17. By the way, Clemens, Maddux, and (Randy) Johnson each pitched 100+ complete games. For shutouts, active leader list goes: 1. Hudson (13) 2. Sabathia, Colon, Lee (12) 5. Burnett (10) 6. 7 others (9). Hopefully CC can pitch another shutout this season to be on the top.

Was selected to the 2000 U.S. Olympic baseball team.
He was in the roster, even spent few weeks with the National team, but then his team (Indians) and the National team disagreed on how he should be used (Indians didn't want their prospect to pitch out of bullpen) so they just flew him back.

Was an All-Conference tight end playing high school football in California.
It is kind of hard to imagine him running around, but he was (obviously) skinnier back in high school.


Youngest American League played his rookie season in 2001. (20)
I digged up who were the youngest players in each league for last 20 years.

Year	AL youngest player	team	NL youngest player	team
1995	Alex Rodriguez	SEA	Karim Garcia	LAD
1996	Gene Kingsale	BAL	Andruw Jones	ATL
1997	Ben Grieve	TOR	Andruw Jones	ATL
1998	Dee Brown	KCR	Adrian Beltre	LAD
1999	Matt Riley	BAL	Rick Ankiel	STL
2000	Jon Garland	CHW	Corey Patterson	CHC
2001	CC Sabathia	CLE	Wilson Betemit	ATL
2002	Francisco Rodriguez	ANA	Wily Mo Pena	CIN
2003	Chad Gaudin	TBD	Edwin Jackson	LAD
2004	B.J. Upton	TBD	Edwin Jackson	LAD
2005	Felix Hernandez	SEA	Matt Cain	WSN
2006	Felix Hernandez	SEA	Lastings Milledge	NYM
2007	Cameron Maybin	DET	Justin Upton	ARI
2008	Travis Snider	TOR	Clayton Kershaw	LAD
2009	Rick Porcello	DET	Madison Bumgarner	SFG
2010	Chris Sale	CHW	Starlin Castro	CHC
2011	Mike Trout	LAA	Julio Teheran	ATL
2012	Jurickson Profar	TEX	Bryce Harper	WSN
2013	Jurickson Profar	TEX	Bryce Harper	WSN
2014	Rougned Odor	TEX	Dilson Herrera	NYM

[edit: I spent some time to make the list above, but I found out after that it was nicely organized in here]

Hit a 440-foot home run in 2008.
I was able to find the video for it, but only with poor video quality.


He is 25 for 111 with three home runs in his career. He hit home runs against Elizardo Ramirez, Homer Bailey, and Chan Ho Park.