“For me, Andy’s a Hall of Famer,” Sabathia said this week of Andy Pettitte. “Getting a chance to pitch alongside him, getting a chance to still talk to him pretty much all the time — I believe he’s a Hall of Famer.”

CC Sabathia feels that his former New York Yankees teammate, Andy Pettitte, should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

CC Sabathia was an ace. You know who screamed this fact loudest? Not me. The sport did. The sport told us what the final numbers didn’t.

Sabathia and Pettitte played four seasons together, including winning a World Series for the Yankees in 2009. While Sabathia got over 86% of the vote the first time he was on the

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After former Yankee CC Sabathia was inducted into the Hall of Fame this offseason, he quickly endorsed his former teammate, Andy Pettitte.

CC Sabathia adds another C to his name now, for Cooperstown, now that he becomes the latest great Yankee to become a first-ballot Hall of Famer.

CC Sabathia remembers being awed by his first visit to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., saying he still gets goosebumps when he thinks about those hours wandering through the plaque gallery several years ago.

The trio of stars, each of whom spent part of their career in New York, will be inducted in Cooperstown on July 27.

Ichiro Suzuki missed unanimous election to the Baseball Hall of Fame by one vote Tuesday night when he headlined a three-player class selected by the 394 voting members of the Baseball Writers Association of America.

CC Sabathia is expected to be part of the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2025, with the results of this year’s vote scheduled to be announced Tuesday evening.

Given the trends in baseball over the last 25 years, our thresholds for starting pitchers must be recalibrated to reward short bursts of dominance and sustained excellence.