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class="ui-droppable">After watching him struggle through his first start of the 2014 regular season against the lowly Houston Astros on Tuesday night, CC Sabathia apologists will say it's only one game. Sabathia critics, meanwhile, will say it's more like 33—and counting.

In picking up the loss in what turned out to be a 6-2 final, Sabathia went six innings, surrendering all six runs on eight hits and generally looking a lot like the same pitcher who endured 32 mostly bad starts in 2013, the worst season of his career.

Although Sabathia did manage a respectable six-to-one strikeout-to-walk ratio, it's not wrong to say that even his unimpressive overall line was somewhat misleading, as Sabathia certainly looked worse than his final numbers, ...

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