 Welcome to Intentional Walk. I'm Jack Curry. Today we're going to talk about two pitchers. One old, one young. Let's start with the young one. The soon-to-be 25-year-old Luis Severino who agreed to a four-year $40 million contract with the Yankees yesterday. There's also a club option for a 50-year. This was a brilliant move by the Yankees to be able to lock up an ace type pitcher at the top of their rotation and know they have him for the next several years. I also think it was a very practical and smart decision by Luis Severino. If he decided to go year-to-year and the CBA changes down the road and free agency comes earlier, is there a chance he could have made more money? Absolutely, but he just guaranteed himself $40 million. The great Joe Strummer of the Clash once said the future is unwritten. The future is not unwritten for Luis Severino anymore. He knows where he's going to be for at least the next four years, and he also knows that he's able to take care of his family with that $40 million. As Austin Romain said to me yesterday, he is set for life. Now, let's talk about the older pitcher, the 38-year-old Cece Sabathia, who has told us what we knew was going to happen for months. He's hinted that 2019 was going to be his final season. In fact, he's actually said it was going to be his final season, and now we know that that's official. And when you talk about Cece Sabathia, you're talking about a pitcher with the Hall of Fame type resume. He will end his career with more than 250 wins, with more than 3,000 strikeouts. There's so many things you can say about Cece's legacy, but today, here's what I want to focus on. The ability to reinvent himself as a pitcher. You go back to 2013, 14, and 15. Cece was a pitcher who pitched to an array of almost five at the Major League level. He added the cutter, and he reinvented himself. The ability to go inside on right-handed batters with the cutter, and then go away with the two-seamer and the change-up. You mix in that slider as well, and that has helped Cece Sabathia at the end of his career be a smart pitcher with a smart formula, and to be as successful as he has been. Now, I wanted to end this with a song, and if I was going to pay tribute to Cece, it would be notorious B.I.G., because that's what he comes out to when he warms up at the games. I thought that was too obvious, so I'm going to go with Frank Sinatra's My Way for Severino and for Sabathia, because as all blue eyes say, much more than this, I did it my way. That's Intentional Walk. We'll see you soon.