(Photo: Matt Slocum, Associated Press)
New York — CC Sabathia’s major-league career is over.
The 39-year-old left-hander was dropped from the Yankees’ American League Championship Series roster Friday, a day after he dislocated a joint in his pitching shoulder during the eighth inning of New York’s Game 4 loss to Houston.
Sabathia was replaced by right-hander Ben Heller. New York trailed 3-1 in the best-of-seven series entering Friday night's game, and even if the Yankees and advanced Sabathia would not be eligible to return to the active roster.
A six-time All-Star and the 2007 AL Cy Young Award winner with Cleveland, Sabathia finished with a 251-161 regular-season record with 3,093 strikeouts.