CC Sabathia officially became the latest longtime Yankee to reach the Baseball Hall of Fame when the voting by the Baseball Writers Association of America was announced Tuesday night, sending Sabathia to Cooperstown along with Ichiro Suzuki and former Mets reliever Billy Wagner.
He’s also the first of the next generation of Yankees to be enshrined, after the likes of Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera, as well as their manager for much of their time in The Bronx, Joe Torre.
So who’s the next Yankee headed to Cooperstown after Sabathia?
It may be a while, at least by recent standards, as Torre, Rivera, Jeter and Sabathia all got in during a 12-year period.
