When CC Sabathia delivers his Hall of Fame speech, one face in the crowd will be that of the man who was Sabathia’s pitching coach when he was a 17-year-old minor leaguer in the Indians’ system.
“I plan on being in Cooperstown that day,’’ Cleveland pitching coach Carl Willis said before the Yankees’ 3-2 victory over the Indians on Friday at Yankee Stadium.
Sabathia is scheduled to be activated from the injured list on Sunday and start the series finale.
“I felt he was going to be an ace and an All-Star,’’ said Willis, who became the Indians’ big league pitching coach in Sabathia’s third season (2003) and left in 2009.