The New York Yankees tried to keep it a secret, but the team’s final payroll numbers for 2018 revealed that CC Sabathia received his innings bonus despite missing the mark by two frames.
Bombers’ GM Brian Cashman told Ronald Blum of the Associated Press that the organization didn’t intend for this info to leak:
“It was something that we did very private and weren’t looking to publicize, and I’ll just leave it at that.”
Cashman and his front-office crew likely don’t want the baseball world to get the wrong impression.