Xyzal<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t think so, no. Maybe I\u2019ll do podcasting\u2026 ten years from now. But no, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll do YES network or be on TV every day, no.<\/p>\n\u201cI don\u2019t want to do anything every single day and this is every single\u00a0day. I\u2019m not doing all of that. It\u2019s a long season and it\u2019s back on the road. I\u2019m out on that.\u201d <\/p>\n
The legendary pitcher played 19 MLB seasons for Cleveland (2001-\u201908), Milwaukee (2008) and the Yankees (2009-\u201919).<\/p>\n
A six-time All-Star and Cy Young winner, Sabathia won a World Series in his first season with the Yankees in 2009, winning the ALCS MVP along the way with two brilliant starts against the Angels. <\/p>\n
He now works for the MLB as a special assistant to the Commissioner. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m way more busy now than I was when I was playing, absolutely,\u201d Sabathia said. \u201cI work for the Yankees, I work at the league, I do a bunch of different stuff, so I stay busy. I have four kids.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026 I\u2019m playing golf all of the time,\u201d he said, grading his game as being \u201cgood\u201d overall. \u201cI\u2019m at an eight handicap right now, so I\u2019m moving it around pretty good. It\u2019s been a lot of fun to tackle another sport in retirement.<\/p>\n
CC Sabathia golfing at Bay Hill Club & Lodge in March 2024. Instagram\/CC Sabathia <\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, it gives you something to do as the weather starts to get nice and you get to go on trips and hang out with, different people that you may not have normally hung out with. Golf is circular in a way where it kind of revolves around your whole life. So it\u2019s pretty cool to be able to play different courses, go to different dinners, meet different people and do different deals out on the golf course. It\u2019s been cool.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of people that are CEOs and different companies play golf\u2026 I played golf with the founder of Draft Kings the other day\u2026 random people that you may not have come across. But golf brings you around different people.\u201d <\/p>\n
Sabathia and his wife, baseball agent Amber Sabathia, are parents to Carsten Charles III, 21, Jaden Arie, 19, Cyia, 16, and Carter, 14 \u2014 and they\u2019re a \u201cclose-knit\u201d family.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy youngest is 14, so not that young,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re a couple years away from being empty nesters and enjoying that. But it keeps us busy having four and having two jobs and my wife\u2019s an agent, so I think I\u2019m way more busy now than I was playing.\u201d<\/p>\n
CC Sabathia and his wife Amber Sabathia. Instagram\/CC Sabathia<\/p>\n
Sabathia emphasized that family time means everything to him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that was the reason why I decided to retire. When I did, my oldest [child] was a sophomore in high school. I wanted to watch him play [baseball at the University of Houston] and having a chance to be around him a couple summers before he went to college was great. And getting the chance to watch my daughter\u2019s dance, and my young guy, I\u2019m with him every single day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
CC Sabathia and his wife Amber with their four kids on Christmas Eve on December 24, 2024. Instagram\/CC Sabathia<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was the perfect time to retire. I mean [the COVID-19 pandemic] was horrible, but having a chance to reconnect with my family [and] nobody was going to school. It was one of the best times of my life to be able to have that three or four months where it was just us and you know kind of hanging out and we acclimated\u2026 we\u2019re a close-knit group. The six of us, we can go anywhere and have fun.\u201d <\/p>\n
Some of that fun includes \u201cfishing and anything outdoors,\u201d but much like his playing days, needs a little help, something he gets from Xyzal.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a huge relief because my allergies are really bad,\u201d said Sabathia, who previously received shots for his allergies during his playing career. \u201cEven as a kid\u2026 and it was bad. So having the chance to have that relief and go to the golf course, play catch, do the things that I love to do without worrying about sneezing or runny nose and all that stuff is great.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In June, Sabathia, who grew up in Vallejo, California, will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on his first ballot as part of the 2025 class in Cooperstown. <\/p>\n
He said he\u2019s looking forward to celebrating the honor with his family. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CC Sabathia is loving life off the mound \u2014\u00a0and out of the spotlight. The soon-to-be Hall of Famer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,1333,4,1690,62,2548,2547,185,4298,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-13754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cc-sabathia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkyankees","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-entertainment","17":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114478846379521305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}