How excited are Yankee fans with this deal? Personally, I would never sign CC because he commands 6+ years, and I predict he will experience significant injuries in that time frame. I don’t have the stats, but I think the guy has pitched like 500 innings in the past two years. Body types like his usually cause knee problems when those guys get into their thirties.

CC will probably dominate for the Yanks for the next few years, but what about after that? Tell me what you think

If you’re a Yankee fan and a resident of New York I don’t see how this can’t outrage you. To give a player this kind of money the same week they go hat in hand to the city asking for hundreds of millions of dollars in tax exempts bonds… I just don’t get it. Not in this economy, not in this city where the transit system is financial crisis…

On the baseball field a guy like Sabathia is almost a no brainer… but off the field, it seems pretty brainless.

this is great. a frontline workhorse was by far our most glaring need. we now have one for six years, and he’s still in the heart of his prime.

i’m actually very surprised he didn’t ask for more money or use Boston or Cali teams to up his price. i was sure the $140 mil was a starting point and it would have finally happened for closer to $150+.

On one hand, I now (in retrospect) wish that the Yanks pulled the trigger on the Santana trade last winter – but this is a good way to get a true ACE out there. I love me some Wang but he’s not a true “Ace” that can pitch a game 7 for you. So I like this signing. And I like that CC seems like such a competitor. AND I like that he has had success in the AL (look at what he did in Cleveland) – so it isn’t like a guy that padded his stats in a dreadful division (yes, I’m looking at you Jake Peavy). So yeah, I’m quickly talking myself into this one.

I’d also vote for Lowe way ahead of AJ Burnett. AJB seems like a complete dbag and only does well in contract yrs. And Lowe is a workhorse.

but I hopes this doesn’t push the Yanks away from trying to sign Big Tex.

He made it clear that the Yankees would have to overbid for him, and since you guys basically had no choice but to sign him, you did outbid everyone else by quite a bit. The whole “not wanting to play for the Yanks” thing is an absolute sham. I’m a Sox fan, so I understand that the Yanks/Sox rivalry is the absolute apex of baseball. I think all great players would love to be on either side of it. All Sabathia did was play the market perfectly for an extra year and tens of millions of dollars.

He made it clear that the Yankees would have to overbid for him, and since you guys basically had no choice but to sign him, you did outbid everyone else by quite a bit. The whole “not wanting to play for the Yanks” thing is an absolute sham. I’m a Sox fan, so I understand that the Yanks/Sox rivalry is the absolute apex of baseball. I think all great players would love to be on either side of it. All Sabathia did was play the market perfectly for an extra year and tens of millions of dollars.

CLE fan here. Congrats. CC will win you a lot of regular season games over the next few years. You are well on your way to another $300M off season. Way to be the NYY. I do have a few questions though.

You need tax payer money why?
That home grown “Trinity” project lasted how lon, one season?
How many playoff choke jobs will it take before you turn on CC like you did A-Rod?

This is an extremely risky contract for NY. That opt out increases your risk dramatically, but gives you no reward. Best case, CC is an absolute ace for another 3 years and you have to renegotiate and give him another $160M after 2011. Worst case, he gets hurt sometime in the first 3 years and you are stuck vastly overpaying on a $90M+ 4 year player option.