MILWAUKEE — Write an e-mail and cc it all around baseball: New Milwaukee Brewers pitcher CC Sabathia no longer wants periods after the initials he uses for his first name.
From here on out, Carsten Charles Sabathia is just “CC” Sabathia — not “C.C.”
After holding a news conference Monday morning to announce they’d made a trade to acquire the reigning AL Cy Young award winner from Cleveland, a member of the Brewers public relations staff advised media members that Sabathia prefers to have his initials written without periods.
“Oh, really?” Brewers general manager Doug Melvin said.
But after Sabathia arrived in Milwaukee on Monday afternoon, he said it wasn’t a big deal.
“I guess I’d go no periods,” Sabathia said.
The Brewers sent four prospects to Cleveland for Sabathia. The big lefty, as it turned out, became a player to be renamed later.
Melvin noted that the Brewers now have two players who don’t use first names — Sabathia and shortstop J.J. Hardy — and wondered if it might start a trend.
Hardy, by the way, apparently is keeping his periods in place.

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