slidingintohome.blogspot.com - 12/1/2008
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From Anthony McCarron : The Yankee offseason - and the future of the club's player development - could be affected by Monday's arbitration deadline, a little bit of baseball bookkeeping that could influence Bobby Abreu and Andy Pettitte . Pettitte likely would earn around the $16 million he's ...
Arbitration Offers
baseballprospectus.com 12/3/2008 — Teams had until Monday to decide whether to offer their free agents arbitration. As I’ve written before, I consider this to be something of a bright-line test of competence for an organization, as the risks and rewards are clear, and in almost ...
The Yankees May Have Blown It With Pettitte and Abreu
observer.com 12/5/2008 — While much of the media focus has been on New York’s pursuit of C.C. Sabathia, the Yankees took the unusual step this week of not offering arbitration to both Bobby Abreu, last season’s starting right fielder, and starting pitcher Andy Pettitte.
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Sherman: If Pettitte Signs Elsewhere Consider Him a Phony
slidingintohome.blogspot.com 12/2/2008 — From Joel Sherman : If Pettitte signs elsewhere, regardless of the dollar figure, he should be viewed as a world-class phony forever around here. There should be no more pardons. He should receive no invites to future Old-Timers Games, hear no cheers when the dynastic teams reassemble. In ...
Dodgers complicating Yanks’ arbitration decision
riveraveblues.com 11/28/2008 — Before this week, we all assumed that Andy Pettitte would come back to New York or retire. Last week’s news that Andy and Joe Torre were talking L.A. upset that balance.
Today, in the Paper That Must Not Be Named, Dodgers GM Ned Colletti ...
Why Sign Andy Pettitte?
jorgesaysno.blogspot.com 12/15/2008 — We look at why the Yankees should not re-sign Andy Pettitte.
Could Yanks Make Same Mistake Again?
nybaseballdigest.com 11/26/2008 — I remember in December of 2003, how many believed it would be “unfathomable” for Andy Pettitte to leave the Yankees for the Houston Astros. This was a time when the Yankees waved their “magic wallet” and players were theirs. ...
Offer Andy Arbitration? Duh!
riveraveblues.com 12/1/2008 — Today is the deadline for teams to offer arbitration to their free agents (players have until Sunday to accept), and over the weekend we had a nice little discussion about whether or not the Yanks should offer Andy Pettitte arbitration . Most fans ...
Arbitration decisions due today
yankees.lhblogs.com 12/1/2008 — Today is the deadline for teams to offer their free agents arbitration. Here are the players the Yankees have to make decisions on:
OF Bobby Abreu (Type A)
1B Jason Giambi
RHP Mike Mussina (Type A)
RHP Carl Pavano
LHP Andy ...
Just Move On, Yankees
jorgesaysno.blogspot.com 1/6/2009 — The New York Times has reported that Andy Pettitte has rejected the Yankees 1 year/$10 million offer. Apparently $10 million is not enough for Pettitte, who is looking for a contract closer to the $16 million he earned in 2008. Fine. If Pettitte really believes that he is worth $13-$14 ...
Andy Pettitte still deciding
blog.nj.com 12/17/2008 — Bob Klapisch makes a case for why Andy Pettitte might feel insulted by the Yanks' approximately $10 million offer: This is hardly a subtle crossroad: Pettitte is deeply conflicted between his affection for the Yankees and the fact that, after...
Could Torre Have Gotten Sabathia? —
Bleacher Report - MLB 12/1/2008
Less than a week ago I ranted about the Yankees not doing enough to woo coveted lefty CC Sabathia and now others have started to catch on.
Richard Justice of the Sporting News thinks the problem isn’t with general manager ...
New York Yankees: Arbitration for All! —
Bleacher Report - MLB 12/1/2008
(From Yankees 'N More)
The New York Yankees (and every other MLB team) must make decisions on whether or not to offer arbitration to all of their remaining free agents by midnight eastern time tonight.
For the Bombers, that list is comprised of ...
No arbitration for Pettitte, Abreu (AP) —
Yahoo! Sports - MLB News 12/1/2008
The New York Yankees declined salary arbitration with all eight of their former players who became free agents, a group that includes pitcher Andy Pettitte and right fielder Bobby Abreu. Both made $16 million last season, so the move was not a ...