Sabathia welcomes Granderson with a bit of a truth stretch
Feb 16, 2010, 12:42 PM EDT
CC Sabathia, on new teammate Curtis Granderson:
Hopefully he’ll hit like 50 homers in our stadium. He was always a tough out for me.
If you’re curious, for his career Granderson is 3-for-19 (.158) with seven strikeouts and zero walks against Sabathia. In fact, 115 different batters have had at least 20 career plate appearances against Sabathia and Granderson has the third-worst OPS, ahead of only Bengie Molina and Angel “Tough Out” Berroa.
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- ecp - Feb 16, 2010 at 12:55 PM
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A no-brainer, since Sabathia is left handed.
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- Chris - Feb 16, 2010 at 1:09 PM
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to be fair, he said he was a tough out, not that he didn’t actually get him out… though i’m just playing devil’s advocate.
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- BC - Feb 16, 2010 at 1:13 PM
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Granderson hits lefties worse than I do. Maybe he should try swinging his wallet instead of a bat.
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- Jonny5 - Feb 16, 2010 at 1:22 PM
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Well, maybe he liked him so much it was tough mentally, to strike him out. But had to do what he had to do obviuosly…
You know, even though he’s a stormtrooper for Stien-Vadar I can’t help but like C.C. He just seems like a genuinely nice guy.
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- Lawrence From Plattekill - Feb 16, 2010 at 1:25 PM
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But they were all line drives right at Johnny Damon.
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- Charlie - Feb 16, 2010 at 10:20 PM
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When CC played here in Cleveland, he was a class act all the way. Still miss him here but wishing him the best in New York.
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- JohnnyB - Feb 17, 2010 at 9:36 AM
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but he must hit lefties better than Jacque Jones ever did….
