MLB / Players

CC Sabathia

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 6 in · 300 lb

BornJuly 21, 1980 · Vallejo, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 8, 2001

Final gameSeptember 24, 2019

Seasons19 (2001–2019)

Cleveland Indians 2001–2008; Milwaukee Brewers 2008; New York Yankees 2009–2019

Percentile snapshot

2016 season — qualified pitchers

9.6

17.8

12.3

16.4

SHO

172

60.3

52.1

27.4

152

58.9

179.7

34.2

ERA

3.91

50.7

WHIP

1.319

31.5

K/9

7.61

43.8

FIP

4.24

31.5

FIP-

100.1

34.2

ERA+

108.4

52.1

sWAR

2.5

49.3

of 74 qualified 2016 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

116.0

84.8

sWAR

60.0

99.4

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2001	33	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.7	-100.0	.000	2.1
2002	33	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	.200	.333	.200	.533	59.8	48.0	.270	2.3
2003	31	6	6	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	176.4	168.6	.447	3.9
2004	30	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	29.3	34.1	.224	2.6
2005	31	6	6	1	2	1	1	4	0	1	.333	.333	1.000	1.333	244.7	240.4	.543	2.6
2006	28	9	9	0	2	0	0	2	0	5	.222	.222	.222	.444	8.3	16.5	.199	4.7
2007	34	3	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	.667	.667	.667	1.333	271.3	253.1	.603	6.0
2008	35	53	51	4	12	2	2	7	0	12	.235	.235	.392	.627	55.8	63.1	.271	7.3
2009	34	4	4	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	23.0	31.4	.224	5.3
2010	34	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	.200	.200	.200	.400	-5.3	8.5	.181	5.3
2011	33	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.7	-100.0	.000	5.7
2012	28	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.5	-100.0	.000	3.8
2013	32	4	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.8	-100.0	.000	0.1
2014	8	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.6	-100.0	.000	-0.4
2015	29	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.9	-100.0	.000	0.2
2016	30	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.0	-100.0	.000	2.5
2017	27	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.250	.000	.250	-1.9	-23.7	.178	2.8
2018	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.5
2019	23	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-118.3	-100.0	.000	0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2001	33	33	17	5	0	0	149	88	95	171	19	180.3	4.39	1.353	8.53	4.27	93.4	104.0	2.1
2002	33	33	13	11	2	0	198	102	88	149	17	210.0	4.37	1.362	6.39	3.96	89.3	101.5	2.3
2003	30	30	13	9	2	1	190	79	66	141	19	197.7	3.60	1.295	6.42	4.01	90.0	123.9	3.9
2004	30	30	11	10	1	1	176	86	72	139	20	188.0	4.12	1.319	6.65	4.32	97.0	108.3	2.6
2005	31	31	15	10	1	0	185	88	62	161	19	196.7	4.03	1.256	7.37	3.72	87.7	105.5	2.6
2006	28	28	12	11	6	2	182	69	44	172	17	192.7	3.22	1.173	8.03	3.35	73.7	140.8	4.7
2007	34	34	19	7	4	1	238	86	37	209	20	241.0	3.21	1.141	7.80	3.22	70.7	141.5	6.0
2008	35	35	17	10	10	5	223	76	59	251	19	253.0	2.70	1.115	8.93	2.91	68.1	157.6	7.3
2009	34	34	19	8	2	1	197	86	67	197	18	230.0	3.37	1.148	7.71	3.44	75.6	135.1	5.3
2010	34	34	21	7	2	0	209	84	74	197	20	237.7	3.18	1.191	7.46	3.51	82.4	133.8	5.3
2011	33	33	19	8	3	1	230	79	61	230	17	237.3	3.00	1.226	8.72	2.91	69.0	140.9	5.7
2012	28	28	15	6	2	0	184	75	44	197	22	200.0	3.38	1.140	8.87	3.29	78.7	123.7	3.8
2013	32	32	14	13	2	0	224	112	65	175	28	211.0	4.78	1.370	7.46	4.12	103.2	83.6	0.1
2014	8	8	3	4	0	0	58	27	10	48	10	46.0	5.28	1.478	9.39	4.81	125.4	72.7	-0.4
2015	29	29	6	10	1	0	188	88	50	137	28	167.3	4.73	1.422	7.37	4.65	115.9	84.7	0.2
2016	30	30	9	12	0	0	172	78	65	152	22	179.7	3.91	1.319	7.61	4.24	100.1	108.4	2.5
2017	27	27	14	5	0	0	139	61	50	120	21	148.7	3.69	1.271	7.26	4.47	100.3	120.7	2.8
2018	29	29	9	7	0	0	150	62	51	140	19	153.0	3.65	1.314	8.24	4.20	99.6	115.6	2.5
2019	23	22	5	8	0	0	112	59	39	107	27	107.3	4.95	1.407	8.97	5.71	124.7	92.5	0.6

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

562

127

121

RBI

.2066

OBP

.2195

SLG

.3058

OPS

.5253

Pitching

G (P)

561

309th-most career G (P)

560

28th-most career GS

251

47th-most career W

161

118th-most career L

SHO

3,577

64th-most career IP

SO (P)

3,093

18th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,099

77th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.736

WHIP

1.2588

375th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

7.78

116th-highest career K/9

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	TB
2005-05-21	CLE @ CIN Gameday	3	1	1	1	2	4
2008-06-21	CLE @ LAD Gameday	3	1	1	1	1	4
2008-07-13	CIN @ MIL Gameday	3	1	1	1	1	4
2008-08-18	HOU @ MIL Gameday	3	1	2	0	2	2
2008-09-05	SD @ MIL Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2011-07-26	SEA @ NYY Gameday	7.0	1	1	1	3	14	0
2011-06-30	MIL @ NYY Gameday	7.2	6	0	0	2	13	0
2007-09-14	KC @ CLE Gameday	7.0	7	4	4	2	13	0
2012-06-07	TB @ NYY Gameday	7.0	7	5	2	1	12	0
2016-08-17	TOR @ NYY Gameday	6.0	9	7	7	1	12	1

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 2025 (BBWAA)

1× Cy Young Award1× ALCS MVP6× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.