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Weighing in on Sabathia

By Rob Neyer

Monday, December 1, 2008

Last week, I raised an unanswerable question: What happens to a 290-pound pitcher as he ages? Well, shortly after I wrote that blog post, I opened up the latest Sports Illustrated and found that Ben Reiter tries to answer the question … Sabathia is listed at 6'7" and 290 pounds, although one wonders if the scale involved in that measurement was borrowed from an especially disreputable pawn shop. He is a behemoth -- only 295-pound reliever Jumbo Brown, who began a 12-year career in 1925, i ...

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