Someone tells the Yankees no
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 | MLB
Andy Pettitte maybe the only player this season that is not taking money from the Yankees. The team offered Pettitte a one-year $10 million deal. It doesn’t mean this deal is 100% dead people close to the team is saying the GM has been talking to Pettitte’s agent. “Andy’s a free agent, and the one thing I’ve been consistent in saying is that we’d like to have Andy back,” Cashman the Yankees GM said last month. Pettitte said last month he wants to play for the Yankees but he is going to leave it to the agents to work out. I think we all know the main issue here, the money. $10 million would be $6 million less then what Pettitte was getting paid last season. Also, with the money that Yankees have been spending this year I’m sure Pettitte doesn’t want to be the good deal for the team. The team has already spent $400 million in the off season on free agents this year.
There has also been talk that some people in the Yankees want to see younger pitchers playing, like Phil Hughes and Alfredo Aceves in the No 4 and 5 spots over Pettitte. Last season Pettitte went 14-14 with a 4.54 ERA and is not super young at 36. In 2007 Pettitte was listed in the Mitchell the report and admitted to the team that he took HGH after he agreed to play in the 2008 season.
