Me And My Bobblehead

C.C. SABATHIA
Indians pitcher

THE ACE, who loves that his bobblehead is topped with his signature crooked cap, tries to keep his dolls from his son, Carsten Charles III, who's two. "[He] breaks them," Sabathia says. "He plays with them like they're action figures." He's not alone: Just-traded closer Bob Wickman says his toddler, Ethan, snapped the arm off his mini C.C. too. Sabathia keeps cases of his bobbleheads safely in his mother's garage. But the doll in his locker? One of ex-teammate Coco Crisp.

SABATHIA'S RATING*
[4 STARS]

PAUL KONERKO
White Sox first baseman

"ON MY bobblehead my waistline is bigger than my shoulders," gripes the three-time All-Star. "I hope it's not true, but it might be." Body proportions aside, the 6'2", 220-pound slugger admires his bobblehead's goatee and feels bad about the treatment it got from the Indians' mascot, Slider. "When we were in Cleveland last year, their mascot used it in a skit on the scoreboard," he says. "It ended with him taking a sledgehammer to my bobblehead."

KONERKO'S RATING
[3 STARS]

PEDRO MARTINEZ
Mets pitcher

MARTINEZ DOESN'T own any of his bobbleheads, but his family went crazy for them. "Everybody said, 'Can I keep one? Can I keep one?'" he says. "My cousin's kids, my sister. Everyone in the family [has] them." Though he says the doll looks like him, he believes the skin color is off--"The face was a little light"--and wishes the bobblehead reflected his fluid pitching delivery. "I would use more of my mechanics," he says. "That would identify me better."

MARTINEZ'S RATING
[3 STARS]

*Players rated their bobbleheads on a 1-to-4 scale with 4 being the best.