Big pitcher, big money: Yankees land Sabathia.
The free-spending New York Yankees secured the biggest pitching prize on the market, giving CC Sabathia a record $161 million contract. Across town, the Mets remade their tattered bullpen with a pair of major moves.
And everyone was wondering when Mark Teixeira and Manny Ramirez would sort through their suitors and make selections.
Business was booming on Day Three at baseball's winter meetings, and the Yankees made quite a splash.
Flexing the economic muscle of a new billion-dollar ballpark and ignoring industrywide nervousness over big-money deals, New York agreed Wednesday to the framework of a $161 million, seven-year contract with Sabathia.
