Are The Mets About To Take The City From The Yanks? CC Doesn't See It
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- It's Major League Baseball's opening day, and as the Mets and Yankees get ready to kick off their 2015 campaigns, there's one question that every local baseball fan is asking himself: Are the Mets about to take back the city from the Yankees?
Bombers starter CC Sabathia certainly doesn't think so.
"I'm not going to sit here and start a war of words back and forth with the Mets, but I don't see it," the left-handed pitcher told the New York Daily News. "That's all I got to say. I don't see it happening. They've got some good young players, but … yeah, they have some good young players."
The Mets are expected to have their best season since 2008, the last time they finished over .500. The Amazin's are loaded with starting pitching, headlined by the return of ace Matt Harvey, who missed all of last season after undergoing Tommy John surgery.
"Is (Harvey) as good as (Masahiro) Tanaka? Is he better than Tanaka? That's what I'm saying," Sabathia told the newspaper. "I don't know. Who knows? We'll see. I'm just saying for every starter they have, we have the same guy who has done it before, been in World Series and won World Series games. That's why I don't think it's a battle."
The Yankees are opening up the season against the Blue Jays in the Bronx, while the Mets are taking on the mighty Nationals in Washington, D.C.
