Yankees' CC Sabathia shows son love during ridiculous MLB Draft Combine

You blink, and all of a sudden CC Sabathia's in the Baseball Hall of Fame and his son Carsten's opening eyes at the MLB Draft Combine after mashing baseballs at Georgia Tech and Houston. What the hell happened to the 2011 Yankees? Wasn't Sabathia just going mano a mano with James Shields?

Apparently, it's 2025 now, and while a whole new generation of Yankees is attempting to right the ship and reset the vibes, Sabathia paid a visit to the stadium where he once picked up his 3,000th strikeout to take care of some important cheering.

Phoenix is the home of this year's MLB Draft Combine, and 21-year-old 6'4" Carsten Sabathia rightly earned the chance to hit bombs (in a BP group that also included Quentin Young, Delmon and Dmitri's nephew).

He's a righty, not a lefty. And he's a first baseman, not a generational hurler. But the younger Sabathia — known as Little C as a kid, definitely no longer known as that — inherited the imposing presence from his pops, and put on a show Tuesday while watching his draft stock rise.

And, yes, that led directly to a "proud dad moment" — with another one to come in July on All-Star Weekend.

Will Yankees have a chance to draft CC Sabathia's son Carsten after he crushed baseballs at 2025 MLB Draft Combine?

Carsten didn't quite have the decorated collegiate career his dad did; he spent two years at George Tech, and was unable to crack the lineup regularly, homering once in 20 plate appearances. After transferring to Houston for his junior season, he hit .235 with a .704 OPS, logging two homers in 96 plate appearances. He's also played with the Trenton Thunder in the MLB Draft League this spring, hitting .171. Carsten played four games with the Brewster Whitecaps last summer in a brief foray into the wood-bat Cape Cod League.

In essence, this week has been the first time in a while that Carsten's gotten the opportunity to open eyes with his raw skill, but he should be available to the Yankees if they'd like to take a chance on him late, in much the same way the Red Sox did with D'Angelo Ortiz. They absolutely should.