From Joel Sherman
The Yankees have re-signed Andy Pettitte for one-year at $11.75 million, the Post has learned.
The contract this time around is not incentives based, which makes sense. Last year, the team was worried that Andy’s shoulder/elbow/arm in general wouldn’t hold up and it turns out that it did pretty well. He only missed one start over the season, and once again finished up around the 200 innings mark. Almost all of his incentives were hit (not hitting the actual 200 innings mark was the last one, I believe), so it’s reasonable to expect that he’d do that again.
I am pretty happy that this year was drama-free compared to 2008 (retirement pondering station) and 2009 (money squabbling). This was obviously also important to the team since Brian Cashman stated that signing Andy was Priority #1, whereas last year they were in CC Sabathia land at this time. It probably made him feel important, plus I’m sure that whole winning the World Series thing puts you in a good mood.
