CC Sabathia  
Starting Pitcher | Oakland Athletics

Pitching
Sabathia has to keep the ball down, especially against lefties, or he gets hit hard and often. His fastball gets into the high 80s, but it's the sink that makes the pitch effective. The Oakland Athletics hope he can work on his control a little bit. Every once and a while one slips away from him and either ends up at the backstop or in the right field bleachers. In his first taste of the majors, he has kept righthanders in check but wasn't as effective against lefties.

Defense & Hitting
His move to first isn't very good, but his delivery is fairly quick and he isn't overly vulnerable to the stolen base. Sabathia is nothing special in the field. Sabathia is a surpisingly good hitting pitcher. And I'm not sure you can say this about a pitcher, but Sabathia has some pop in his swing.

          -- Moostard Nyman
 

 

Year Team AS EN CO HR GF vL Hm Sc CL FB CU SI SL CB SC KN Age Exp Delivery Slot CH PH SP FA Nyman Rating
2005 TEX 65 70 50 50 55 43 50 50 52 70 0 0 55 50 0 0 23 0 Overhand Low Minors 3 12 39 47 254
2006 TEX 68 78 59 50 55 43 50 50 52 72 0 0 55 58 0 0 24 0 Overhand Low Minors 0 2 5 47 289
2007 TEX 72 79 60 40 55 43 50 50 52 72 0 0 59 63 0 0 25 0 Overhand Low Minors 0 0 0 47 294
2008 OAK 85 80 60 43 55 43 50 50 52 72 0 0 59 63 0 0 26 0 Overhand Low Minors 0 0 0 38 312
2009 OAK 85 81 60 45 55 43 50 50 52 72 0 0 59 65 0 0 27 0 Overhand Active 0 0 0 45 316
2010 OAK 84 83 60 49 55 43 50 50 52 72 0 0 61 66 0 0 27 1 Overhand Active 0 0 0 46 325
Ratings Delta   -1 +2   +4                 +2 +1       +1           +1 +9
History generated by Biorhythm v2.6.86 on Sun Nov 14 13:28:08 EST 2004

Data printed in red denotes that player was in the top two percent for that category and year. Blue data denotes membership to the bottom two percent.