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CC Sabathia Contract: Pitching Ace Opts to Stay with New York Yankees

you haven’t heard the good news, start spreading it, as CC Sabathia is staying a New York Yankee.

All it took was adding another year (with an option of adding a second) and $30 million increase.

Sabathia’s new contract, which supersedes the remaining four years and $92 million left on his original contract, is for five years and $122 million.

The 31-year-old lefty will earn $25 million in 2016, which is the last guaranteed year of the new contract, but there is a sixth year vesting option for another $25 million or a team buyout for $5 million, but that depends on health and other factors. So, ultimately Sabathia could rake in another $147 million in total.

Yankees fans are ecstatic about keeping their ace while ...

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