{"id":182051,"date":"2025-07-17T03:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T03:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/182051\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T03:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T03:06:12","slug":"cc-sabathia-yahoo-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/182051\/","title":{"rendered":"CC Sabathia – Yahoo Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

CC Sabathia<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While CC Sabathia retired from Major League Baseball in 2019, the first-ballot Hall of Famer remains closely tied to the game.<\/p>\n

The New York Yankees legend, who started working with Commissioner Rob Manfred in 2022, acts as a liaison between players and the league.<\/p>\n

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While in Atlanta for the 2025 MLB All-Star Game this week, Sabathia wore many hats. In addition to being a brand ambassador for Mastercard, a major sponsor of the Midsummer Classic, he also participated in the 24th annual All-Star Celebrity Softball Game, where he had his own “priceless” moment.<\/p>\n

While the six-time All-Star will be enshrined in Cooperstown due to his work on the mound, he won the MVP Award after launching a monster home run during the American League team’s softball win.<\/p>\n

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CC Sabathia.Brett Davis-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Sabathia, however, was happy to return to the stands to watch the Home Run Derby and the All-Star Game, the latter of which ended with a National League win following a historic Home Run Swing-Off in lieu of a 10th inning.<\/p>\n

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Looking ahead to the second half of the season, I asked Sabathia which team he believes will win the 2025 World Series. “Man, I think the Dodgers are obviously a very good team if they can get healthy. So I’ll have to go with them in the National League right now.<\/p>\n

“And then the Yankees, they need some bullpen help. They need a third baseman. But I do think if the Tigers can make some moves and get some bull pen help with [Tarik] Skubal, they can give the Yankees a run. So, I\u2019m going to go Tigers right now.”<\/p>\n

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American League pitcher Tarik Skubal (29) of the Detroit Tigers.Brett Davis-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

So, if it all comes down to the Dodgers, the 2024 World Series Champions, against Tigers this October — who wins?<\/p>\n

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“Dodgers,” Sabathia answered. “Back to back.”<\/p>\n

Related: Calls Mount to Fire Legendary MLB Announcer During Royals-Yankees Game<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jul 17, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CC Sabathia originally appeared on Athlon Sports. While CC Sabathia retired from Major League Baseball in 2019, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[152,191,5,1333,31041,147,39,19,4,505,1690,62,2548,2547,330,954,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-182051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-american-league","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-cc-sabathia","12":"tag-celebrity-softball-game","13":"tag-detroit","14":"tag-dodgers","15":"tag-major-league-baseball","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-national-league","18":"tag-new-york","19":"tag-new-york-yankees","20":"tag-newyork","21":"tag-newyorkyankees","22":"tag-rob-manfred","23":"tag-skubal","24":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114866368866611515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182051","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=182051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}