CC Sabustia

First there was A-fraud the compiler. Now we have CC Sebustia the disappointer. I kept hearing stories this week about how CC was becoming a clubhouse leader. Well not today. CC isn't going to be a leader in the Yankee clubhouse anytime soon. The best player on the team is always the leader by default. You can have vocal leaders or whatever, but the real leader is the man with the most skills and the most passion. CC displayed neither yesterday.

The problem with CC is that he's not a big game pitcher. We'll take a look at why he's not a big game pitcher, given his talent and skill set, another time. For now let's take a look at his cumulative postseason numbers:33 innings, 22 runs, 22 walks, 7.92 ERA, with an on base % of .464. Interestingly, "world series numbers are not available". I wonder why! With starting pitching like that, it's almost impossible for a team to reach the world series. I think we've found the Arod of pitchers.

Sure he'll get us 200 innings, 15 wins and maybe a sub-4 ERA. But the Yankees need players who can perform in high profile games. CC doesn't look like the kind of guy who can go 6 and two thirds of one run ball at Fenway park. And that's what it's going to take to win the AL East.