Sabathia signs one-year deal with Yankees

New York: CC Sabathia, a 37-year-old left-handed pitcher who helped the New York Yankees win the 2009 World Series, has signed a one-year deal to return for a 10th season with the Major League Baseball club.

Sabathia is coming off a season in which he suffered a right knee injury in August but returned in October to help the Yankees come within one game of the World Series before falling to eventual champions Houston in the American League Championship Series.

Sabathia went 14-5 with a 3.69 earned-run average last season and went 120-73 with a 3.75 earned-run average in 255 starts over nine seasons with the Yankees.

Sabathia returns to a Yankees pitching rotation that includes Japan’s Masahiro Tanaka, Sonny Gray and Luis Severino.