The decade is coming to a close in a little over two weeks from now, so now’s as good a time as ever to take stock of this stretch of Yankees baseball. Today, I’ll look back at the 2010’s to determine the team’s All-Decade rotation. Let’s start off with the ace of the staff, a recently retired left-hander who just might be headed for the Hall of Fame.
This one was extremely obvious. Sabathia signed with the Yankees in 2009 for seven years, $161 million. At the time, that was the most amount of money given to a starting pitcher in baseball history.