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Yesterday, while speaking with KRIV-TV in Houston, free-agent LHP Andy Pettitte said he will most likely either pitch for the Yankees in 2008, or he will retire.
Pettitte has until November 8 to decide whether he will exercise his $16 million player option for next season.
…it’s a lot of money, but he left houston for the Yankees specifically to play for Joe Torre, who is no longer on the team, while pitching alongside his old buddies, like Jorge Posada, Mariano Rivera and Roger Clemens, all of whom are free agents…
In his last 72 games, spanning starts for the Astros and Yankees, Pettitte is 29–22 with a 4.13 ERA.
…what’s weird is that he allowed exactly 238 hits in each of the last two seasons, while throwing just one more inning this past season compared to the one before…strange…
…at any rate, he’s talked of honor to the Yankees and retiring before, and so i still bet he ends up pitching again, either in the Bronx or in los angeles with Joe Torre, Don Mattingly and whomever else heads out that way…
I can see his name appearing in the Mitchell Report…
I can also see him heading to LA to pitch for the Dodgers.
Girardi will have his elbow blown out by July
good. so now not another word of that stiff coming here
I could really see LA making a play for Rivera and putting Saito in an 8th inning role with Broxton – forming one sick bullpen (btw how excited is Scott Proctor? He actually had hope of re-attaching his arm in LA that’s now gone!).
I don’t see Pettitte though – if he doesn’t want to play in NY for Girardi I bet he retires. And LA has no spot for Posada.
I could totally see that…
LA has a scary crop of prospects as well…
LA has Russell Martin. Now there is a catcher that I would love to see on the Mets.
Btw – I think its funny that the Red Sox won 1 WS when the Yankees went the “extra mile” to get ARod instead of them and a 2nd when they went an “extra mile” to make sure they got Clemens over the Red Sox.
Meanwhile Johnny Damon = 0-2 in the playoffs.
That beat Boston mentality is really working, huh?