CC Sabathia: 29 pitches off mound

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    CC Sabathia has started 383 regular-season games and 19 postseason games in his 12 major-league seasons.

    And yet the New York Yankees ace made a surprising admission on Saturday: Just before releasing his first pitch from a spring training bullpen mound before small crowd of coaches and reporters, he was nervous.

    "Just because it was the first time doing it,'' said Sabathia, who underwent arthroscopic surgery in the offseason to clean out a bone spur in his pitching elbow.

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