Yankees: CC Sabathia’s NSFW take after loss to Red Sox hits nail on the head

It’s really special how tight-knit the New York Yankees family is. But with that comes tough love, and CC Sabathia certainly knows how to deliver on that end of the deal.

Earlier in the year, he talked about what might’ve been wrong with the 2021 team since so many people were truly befuddled with how poorly they were performing. He, too, was confused about the streakiness and lack of urgency/motivation.

Now, the confusion has reached a boiling point, especially for Sabathia, who was on this team back in 2018 when the Red Sox spoiled the Yankees’ 100-win season and booted them from the playoffs in the ALDS — in embarrassing fashion, mind you.

He’s now asking the same question: How did this happen again?

OK, we’ll give 2018 a pass. The Sox won 108 games. They ripped through the postseason and pasted the Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers after taking care of business with the Yankees.

But 2021? After they had entered a brief re-tool/rebuilding period following the Mookie Betts trade? How did the Yankees let that happen despite possessing the superior roster?

CC Sabathia is not happy with the Yankees after their loss to the Red Sox.

“What the f–k are we doing wrong?” We’d love to know too. We really would.

Sabathia did exaggerate this a tad. I’m not so sure we’d call Jackie Bradley Jr. and Andrew Benintendi key members of the Red Sox’s “core.” Those players were easily replaced. As for Mookie, yes, that’s a clear-as-day massive, irreplaceable loss.

The 2021 Red Sox still have Nathan Eovaldi, Chris Sale, Xander Bogaerts, Rafael Devers and Christian Vazquez — all of whom were on the 2018 squad and still play primary roles with the current roster.

Also, this all happened three years ago, not four. Just want to set the record straight before we start laying into the Yankees.

This Red Sox team had no business starting the year 7-0 vs the Yankees, tying them in the AL East standings, and stealing the season series to own the tie-breaker for home-field advantage. On paper, they were inferior.

And the Yankees seemingly “solved their problems” since 2018. Gerrit Cole is now the ace of the staff. Aaron Judge had his first healthy season since 2017. The addition of DJ LeMahieu gave the team another contact-heavy bat to differentiate from the home run-or-strikeout identity.

The explanation this time around, after a better Yankees team lost to a worse Red Sox team? Well, that’ll be for general manager Brian Cashman and owner Hal Steinbrenner to answer over the next few weeks.

We’re going to bet Sabathia isn’t going to like what they have to say, either.

Yankees: CC Sabathia perfectly diagnoses weird NYY problem

New York Yankees ace from the past CC Sabathia sees the same issue with the 2021 squad -- and the past several teams -- that you do.