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CC Sabathia feeling good, set to start Tuesday

American League's CC Sabathia, of the New York

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For the previous five seasons, "disabled list'' might as well have been a foreign phrase to CC Sabathia. But Sabathia, who will return to the mound Tuesday night against the Blue Jays, looks at his stay on the DL -- his first since April 2006 -- as a blessing in disguise, saying, "I think the rest is good for my arm even more so than my leg.''

Sabathia has been on the DL since June...

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