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CC Sabathia

Age: 39
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 300 lb
Number: #52

Born: July 21, 1980 in Vallejo, CA, United States
MLB debut: April 8, 2001

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dbWAR: 49.5
IP: 107.1
ERA: 4.95
FIP: 5.66
K/9: 9.0
FIP−: 126

CC Sabathia was a starting pitcher for the New York Yankees. In 2019 he struck out 107 batters over 107.1 innings across 23 appearances, 22 of them starts, going 5-8. His ERA of 4.95 was 9.8% higher than the league average of 4.51 — 13th of 17 on his team, and 350th of 545 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.66 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 25.1% of swings (11.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 22.9%. His -0.2 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.

League context

Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2019 regular season.

FIP5.66

K/99.0

WHIP1.41

WAR-.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2019; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2019	NYY	23	22	107.1	5	8	112	59	107	39	4.95	5.66	1.41	9.0	3.3	110	126	-0.2
2018	NYY	29	29	153.0	9	7	150	62	140	51	3.65	4.16	1.31	8.2	3.0	88	100	2.0
2017	NYY	27	27	148.2	14	5	139	61	120	50	3.69	4.49	1.27	7.3	3.0	85	103	1.6
2016	NYY	30	30	179.2	9	12	172	78	152	65	3.91	4.28	1.32	7.6	3.3	93	102	2.0
2015	NYY	29	29	167.1	6	10	188	88	137	50	4.73	4.68	1.42	7.4	2.7	119	118	0.5
2014	NYY	8	8	46.0	3	4	58	27	48	10	5.28	4.78	1.48	9.4	2.0	141	128	-0.1
2013	NYY	32	32	211.0	14	13	224	112	175	65	4.78	4.10	1.37	7.5	2.8	124	106	2.0
2012	NYY	28	28	200.0	15	6	184	75	197	44	3.38	3.33	1.14	8.9	2.0	84	83	3.9
2011	NYY	33	33	237.1	19	8	230	79	230	61	3.00	2.88	1.23	8.7	2.3	76	73	6.0
2010	NYY	34	34	237.2	21	7	209	84	197	74	3.18	3.54	1.19	7.5	2.8	78	87	4.5
2009	NYY	34	34	230.0	19	8	197	86	197	67	3.37	3.39	1.15	7.7	2.6	78	79	5.1
2008	CLE/MIL	35	35	253.0	17	10	223	76	251	59	2.70	2.91	1.11	8.9	2.1	63	67	7.0
2007	CLE	34	34	241.0	19	7	238	86	209	37	3.21	3.14	1.14	7.8	1.4	72	70	6.6
2006	CLE	28	28	192.2	12	11	182	69	172	44	3.22	3.30	1.17	8.0	2.1	71	73	4.8
2005	CLE	31	31	196.2	15	10	185	88	161	62	4.03	3.69	1.26	7.4	2.8	94	86	3.4

Batting Regular season


2019	NYY	2	3	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	66.7%	.000	-0.8	-126	-0.0
2017	NYY	2	4	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.250	.000	.000	.000	25.0%	50.0%	.178	-0.5	-0	0.0
2016	NYY	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-116	-0.0
2015	NYY	1	3	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	66.7%	.000	-0.8	-122	-0.0
2014	NYY	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-123	-0.1
2013	NYY	2	4	0	0	1	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.0	-119	-0.0
2012	NYY	2	5	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	20.0%	.000	-1.2	-119	-0.1
2011	NYY	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.7	-116	-0.0
2010	NYY	2	5	1	0	0	0	3	.200	.200	.200	.000	.500	0.0%	60.0%	.180	-0.6	-1	0.0
2009	NYY	1	4	1	0	1	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.000	.333	0.0%	25.0%	.225	-0.4	27	0.0
2008	MIL/CLE	18	53	12	2	7	0	12	.235	.235	.392	.157	.270	0.0%	22.6%	.272	-2.7	59	0.4
2007	CLE	1	3	2	0	0	0	0	.667	.667	.667	.000	.667	0.0%	0.0%	.600	+0.7	268	0.1
2006	CLE	3	9	2	0	2	0	5	.222	.222	.222	.000	.500	0.0%	55.6%	.199	-1.0	8	0.0
2005	CLE	2	6	2	1	4	0	1	.333	.333	1.000	.667	.250	0.0%	16.7%	.559	+1.1	266	0.2

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason CC Sabathia's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2019 Post	NYY	ALCS	2	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.0
2018 Post	NYY	ALDS	1	1	3.0	0	1	5	3	0	2	1	9.00	2.33	3.0
2017 Post	NYY	Postseason total	4	4	19.0	1	1	16	5	1	10	19	2.37	1.37	9.0
		ALDS	2	2	9.2	0	0	8	4	0	3	14	3.72	1.14	13.0
		ALCS	2	2	9.1	1	1	8	1	1	7	5	0.96	1.61	4.8
2012 Post	NYY	Postseason total	3	3	21.1	2	1	23	8	2	5	19	3.38	1.31	8.0
		ALDS	2	2	17.2	2	0	12	3	0	3	16	1.53	0.85	8.2
		ALCS	1	1	3.2	0	1	11	5	2	2	3	12.27	3.55	7.4
2011 Post	NYY	ALDS	3	2	8.2	0	0	10	6	1	8	11	6.23	2.08	11.4
2010 Post	NYY	Postseason total	3	3	16.0	2	0	22	10	3	7	15	5.63	1.81	8.4
		ALDS	1	1	6.0	1	0	5	3	1	3	5	4.50	1.33	7.5
		ALCS	2	2	10.0	1	0	17	7	2	4	10	6.30	2.10	9.0
2009 Post	NYY	Postseason total	5	5	36.1	3	1	28	8	4	9	32	1.98	1.02	7.9
		ALDS	1	1	6.2	1	0	8	1	0	0	8	1.35	1.20	10.8
		ALCS	2	2	16.0	2	0	9	2	1	3	12	1.13	0.75	6.8
		World Series	2	2	13.2	0	1	11	5	3	6	12	3.29	1.24	7.9
2008 Post	MIL	NLDS	1	1	3.2	0	1	6	5	1	4	5	12.27	2.73	12.3
2007 Post	CLE	Postseason total	3	3	15.1	1	2	21	15	3	13	14	8.80	2.22	8.2
		ALDS	1	1	5.0	1	0	4	3	2	6	5	5.40	2.00	9.0
		ALCS	2	2	10.1	0	2	17	12	1	7	9	10.45	2.32	7.8
2005–2019		Postseason total · 9 Octobers	25	22	124.1	9	7	131	60	15	58	116	4.34	1.52	8.4

Postseason batting

Postseason CC Sabathia's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2009 Post	NYY	World Series	1	3	3	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
2008 Post	MIL	NLDS	2	2	2	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2005–2019		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	3	5	5	3	.000	.000	.000	.000

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2019. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	102	91	18	7	7	26	.198	.270	.451	.304	25.5%
vs RHB	366	331	94	20	32	81	.284	.348	.529	.368	22.1%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2019.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .252.

Pitch sequencing

What CC Sabathia throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Cutter	42.0%	726	88.3	2,194	46.1%	22.6%	157	.280	.913
Slider	30.2%	522	79.2	2,208	45.8%	29.3%	137	.241	.794
Sinker	14.3%	248	89.1	2,051	47.6%	14.2%	55	.255	.952
Changeup	12.2%	211	82.7	1,884	40.3%	35.2%	68	.294	.701
Four-Seam Fastball	1.3%	22	88.8	2,097	45.5%	18.2%	5	—	—

CC Sabathia's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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Nearest 2019 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Asher WojciechowskiBAL

ERA: 4.92
FIP: 5.30
SO: 80
WAR: 0.3

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Vince VelasquezPHI

ERA: 4.91
FIP: 5.21
SO: 130
WAR: 0.3

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Elieser HernándezMIA

ERA: 5.03
FIP: 5.58
SO: 85
WAR: -0.1

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J.A. HappNYY

ERA: 4.91
FIP: 5.22
SO: 140
WAR: 0.5

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.