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CC Sabathia made his MLB debut in 2001, the same year that I first started paying close attention to baseball. Until 2020, I had never truly known a season without CC making his impact known somewhere in the game, whether it was winning a Cy Young in Cleveland, putting the Brewers on his back down the stretch in 2008, or living through both the delirious highs and arduous lows of his long Yankees career. Watching him lead them to the World Series title was a moment that as a fan, I’ll never forget. I felt for him deeply as he checked himself into rehab in 2015 with the Yankees on the brink of the playoffs. We didn’t know much of what was going on in CC’s life from afar, but we knew it was serious.