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. ...

Pettitte says No to the Yanks
spartyandfriends.com 1/6/2009 — Rarely can we as fans be upset with a player turning down an offer. I have never had a problem with someone who wants to go get the most money possible, I think everyone has the right to go get theirs. However, Andy Pettitte has really disappointed me by turning down the generous offer of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pettitte Wants To Return - But Yanks Want Him To Take 38% Paycut
waswatching.com 12/5/2008 — Via Jack Curry - Before the Yankees ended their disappointing 2008 season, Andy Pettitte toured the new Yankee Stadium. While he was in the spacious clubhouse, he picked out the locker that he said he wanted to use in 2009. Whether or not ...

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 ...

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...

Pettitte Rejects Yanks Offer
slidingintohome.blogspot.com 1/6/2009 — From Tyler Kepner : A reunion seemed inevitable at the start of the off-season, but now it is uncertain. Pettitte has rejected the Yankees’ one-year, $10 million offer, according to a person with knowledge of the negotiations, and there is no standing offer for now. It's amazing to me that this ...

Who calls a guy a “phony” anymore?
hardballtimes.com 12/2/2008 — Holden Caulfiled --er, I mean Joel Sherman of the New York Post has some sharp words for Andy Pettitte: 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 ...

Agents Work to Avoid a Pay Cut for Pettitte
nytimes.com 12/4/2008 — Andy Pettitte made $16 million last season, one of the highest salaries in the major leagues for a pitcher, and his agents have stressed that he wants the same salary. >

Mets to continue pursuit of closers — Major League Baseball News 12/2/2008
The Mets will proceed with their pursuit of Francisco Rodriguez and Brian Fuentes, playing the win-now-pay-later game they played on a significantly higher scale in February when they dealt four players to the Twins for Johan Santana, three years ago ...

Why The Recession Benefits Major League Baseball — Bleacher Report - MLB 12/2/2008
With the recession this country faces right now, which will very likely continue for at least the next two years, professional sports are going to be dealt a financial blow.  Major League Baseball certainly will feel the effects of this ...

Why The New York Yankees Are the Greatest: Part Five — Bleacher Report - MLB 12/2/2008
Almost all great baseball teams have had very good catchers.  Throughout the years when the New York Yankees have been champions, they have had very good or great catchers. It must also be said that during those periods in their history when ...

Bet on Yanks to go all in on pitching — Major League Baseball News 12/2/2008
The Yankees' odds of garnering a response from CC Sabathia may increase at the Winter Meetings in Las Vegas, but they will also look beyond who GM Brian Cashman called the No. 1 free-agent pitcher to shore up the starting rotation for 2009.

Yankees' Brilliant Cashman — Bleacher Report - MLB 12/3/2008
Yankees' GM Brian Cashman made another very solid move yesterday by NOT offering Bobby Abreu salary arbitration. I'm sure there are some Yankee fans who look at Abreu's production (20 HR, 100 RBI, .296 BA) and think that signing Abreu for another ...