The Girl Who Loved Andy Pettitte

Although it’s not set in stone as the fifth starter is to be determined, enough is in place that we can start to check out what the 2009 rotation is going to look like. I don’t really believe in assigning numbers as an indicator of quality, especially given what the Yankees are going to have [...]

From my two favorite baseball writers in New York, the dream team combination of George King III and Joel Sherman:

Instead, the Yankee GM departed Las Vegas early yesterday morning to fly to Texas for a sit-down with Andy Pettitte Andy Pettitte - a story The Post broke exclusively yesterday on nypost.com.
Cashman was expected to [...]

The Yankees intend to offer arbitration to their own free agent, Bobby Abreu, by tonight’s midnight deadline, and the Mets likely will do the same with their own free agent, Oliver Perez.
The rest of the local teams’ free agents, including big names Andy Pettitte and Pedro Martinez, probably will not be extended that courtesy, according [...]

Looks like the multi-year contract want thing has been blown out of proportion (surprise!), and from what is being reported after actually speaking to the relevant parties Andy is just waiting to hear back from the team. From Ed Price:

Yankees general manager Brian Cashman told reporters at the GM meetings this week that “Andy is [...]

From the AP, via ESPN:

New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman wants pitcher Andy Pettitte to stay with the team for the 2009 season.
The 36-year-old left-hander said near the end of the season that he’d likely want to remain with the Yankees, and he confirmed that decision Tuesday in an interview with KRIV television in [...]

Though Andy Pettitte Andy Pettitte has told the Yankees he wants to pitch again, the Yankees are hearing whispers the veteran left-hander would like a two-year deal. If that’s the case, the Yankees may balk.
I was in the middle of writing something up about how Andy’s defense independent pitching stats indicate he’d perform pretty well [...]

From Buster Olney, who is sometimes right and sometimes wrong:

As the New York Yankees began a round of scouting meetings this week to discuss the future of the team, they know that veteran left-hander Andy Pettitte intends to pitch in 2009, and his intention is to pitch for them.
Sources said on Wednesday that Pettitte’s agent, [...]

Progress! Progress is very important, especially when you are a young glasses wearing pitcher for the Yankees who had some major problems with being bad at the start of the year. Phil Hughes was pretty not awful, but there are a few things I was concerned with specifically:

Not using his curve to get batters out. [...]

It only took until the Yankees had completely played themselves out of contention, but Alfredo Aceves is making his first start in place of Darrell Rasner tonight. They’ll still lose in some terrible manner because they’re playing the Angels, but at least it’s one less Rasner start to watch. Aceves is no baseball Jesus (that [...]

Sometimes, I think this team’s Front Office just gave up after Chien-Ming Wang got hurt. While I agree with the decision to keep Phil Hughes on AAA working everything out, you can’t keep both Darrell Rasner and Sidney Ponson in the rotation as long as they have been and expect to win enough games to [...]