Tag: CC Sabathia

Raider Nation legend voted into National Baseball Hall of Fame

Raiders get another Hall of Famer. Only this time it’s the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

The Raiders just added another Hall of Famer to their ranks. But this time it’s not the Pro Football Hall of Fame, it’s the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Bay Area native and lifelong Raiders fan CC Sabathia is headed to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

He enters Cooperstown along with legendary Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki and Astros pitcher Billy Wagner.

Sabathia is one of the more well known members of the Raider Nation. So much so, in fact, that a couple years ago, he lit the Al Davis torch at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.

 

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Sabathia was born in the East Bay city of Vallejo, which is just a few miles north of Oakland Coliseum.

He was 2 years old when the team moved to Los Angeles, and they moved back to Oakland when he was 15. So, he has now been a Raiders faithful through three moves. He has been often seen on the sideline for games in Oakland, Las Vegas, Cleveland and New York when he played for the Indians and Yankees, respectively.

Congratulations to CC Sabathia on his election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

2025 Hall of Fame voting results: CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner join Ichiro as latest inductees

Congrats to the Hall of Famers!

The 2025 National Baseball Hall of Fame inductees were officially unveiled and we will have a new class of stars enshrined in Cooperstown.

After votes were collected by the BBWAA, we have learned which players will have their plaques on the walls of the beloved museum in upstate New York.

To no surprise, Ichiro Suzuki headlined the class with the most votes of any player this year. The 2001 AL Rookie of the Year and MVP was a 10-time MLB All-Star before he retired in 2019. Earlier this month, he also became the first MLB player to enter the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.

Ichiro — who received all but one vote — headlined the three-player class. Here are the full results from this year’s Hall of Fame voting tally:

Joining Ichiro were CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner.

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CC Sabathia posted 1 trolling GIF to celebrate Angel Hernandez retiring

CC Sabathia seems happy Angel Hernandez is retiring.

The year was 2018. The New York Yankees were in the playoffs against the Boston Red Sox. Angel Hernandez had a rough game as an umpire, with multiple plays overturned.

Afterwards, Yankees starter CC Sabathia went off on Hernandez, calling the umpire “absolutely terrible” and adding, “it’s amazing how he’s getting jobs umpiring in these playoff games.”

Fastforward to 2024. Hernandez is now a retired umpire, leaving behind a legacy of bad calls, and baseball fans everywhere are celebrating. Turns out … so is Sabathia, or so it seems.

Here’s what Sabathia posted on X (formerly Twitter) after the news dropped on Tuesday night:

And that famous moment in 2018:

CC Sabathia crushed Tony La Russa in a passionate, expletive-ridden rant

CC Sabathia did not hold back AT ALL.

Tony La Russa has been embarrassing himself time and time again this week thanks to his idiotic belief that his player, Yermin Mercedes, did the wrong thing by hitting a home run on a 3-0 pitch late in a blowout win over the Twins.

La Russa apologized to the Twins for the move, which was an embarrassing thing for him to do. Then he later didn’t back Mercedes after the Twins threw at him in the next game, which was also embarrassing thing for him to do and should have cost him his job.

I don’t know how any White Sox players have respect for their manager after all of that.

Former MLB pitcher CC Sabathia took some time on his podcast this week to go off on La Russa, saying he’s out of touch with the game and should be fired and that the Twins should be mad about not being good at baseball.

This rant has a ton of bad words but is 100 percent correct from start to finish:

(Insert 400 clapping emojis right here.)

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CC Sabathia looks like a different person after retiring from MLB

He is very jacked.

CC Sabathia finished out a pretty fantastic baseball career in 2019, with 251 career wins and a 3.74 ERA.

And now, the pitcher is making headlines on Tuesday for a very different reason: he’s super-jacked now.

He was listed at 6-foot-6 and 300 pounds during his career, but it would appear he’s lost some weight and added some serious muscle, as social media found out on Tuesday when a photo of Sabathia began circulating, with some wondering if it was photoshopped.

Sabathia’s podcast co-host Ryan Ruocco said it wasn’t re-touched at all, that this is what Sabathia looks like now.

Check out Sabathia’s new look:

Quite the transformation!

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