Andy Pettitte

What better place to continue to grow as a pitcher than around pitchers like Mariano Rivera, Andy Pettitte, CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett. We are talking about a good 30-40 years of experience comb

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You're an inspiration, Cap! Andy Pettitte takes the hill tonight for Game 2. Are we going to see more sparks during this series?

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"stylin" part of the game.  Our 20 game winner?  A 24 year old lefty named Andy Pettitte (21-8).  Our big bats? A couple of transplanted Yankees Tino Martinez (25/117) and Paul Oneil (19/91) along with another relatively young Yankee, Bernie Williams (29/102).  There was a former Dodger at Second, in Mariano Duncan (.340)and as earlier mentioned Boggs at 3rd (.311). Behind the plate was Joe Girardi and Jim Leyritz both splitting time, grooming a young catcher by the name of Jorge Posada.  In the pen were guys like Jeff Nelson and Bob Wickman. Ramiro Mendoza made spot starts and came in for long relief.  The Closer? John Wetteland (43 saves) occasionally the set up man would come in and earn a save, a position Mariano Rivera would become famous for in later years. And at shortstop was a rookie named Jeter.  A rare breed, with expectations that warranted one of two single digit jerseys available in the Yankee clubhouse, the other went to the new skipper, Mr. Joe Torre.   

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st the Yankees Sunday night, I thought to myself: "This pretty much sums it up." An aging Andy Pettitte forgets to deliver from the stretch, letting a youthful Ellsbury elude another future Bingo regular, Jorge Posada's, tag at the plate. Would Justin Masterson have made the same error? The two ballclubs could not be headed in more opposite directions. Every year, the Red Sox seem to call up another hyped prospect, while the Yanks continue to overpay for limited talent, and shun their farm system.

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here are the top five free agent pitchers:

(1) Ben Sheets, (2) Oliver Perez, (3) Jon Garland, (4) Andy Pettitte, and (5) Randy Wolf

Sheets is unquestionably the best pitcher of the group, but his injury history is immensely discouraging. Even though he's the top gun remaining, I wouldn't touch him if I were the Mets. He'll get hurt and either Jon Niese or Bobby Parnell will be in the rotation before we know it. Can't have one of them on top of Maine and Redding.

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n Schmidt ($15.2M) Derek Lowe ($10M)Ben Sheets ($10.1M)Johan Santana ($16.9M)Pedro Martinez ($11.8M)Andy Pettitte ($16M)Mike Mussina ($11M)Carl Pavano ($11M)Matt Morris ($10M)Greg Maddux ($10M) Barry Zito ($14.5M)Chris Carpenter ($10.5M)Vincente Padilla ($11M)Kevin Millwood ($10.3M) AJ Burnett ($13.2M)Roy Halladay ($10M)

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From Alex Rodriguez to Brett Gardner and Jose Molina on offense and from Andy Pettitte to David Robertson pitching. The pitching this weekend was superb, outside of one inning by Jose Veras. They were sharp, crisp and threw strikes. They basically didn't walk anyone which is always a good recipe for success.

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ets hope they come back from the break focused and ready to go on a tear like last year, because as Andy Pettitte said, they stink right now.

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ad a no-hitter earlier this year, so his stuff is clearly good—as the way they were shut out. Andy Pettitte, who had been doing better of late and always dependable at home, was chased after four-and-two-thirds innings, having given up five runs on nine hits, with three walks and two strikeouts. Boston jumped on him early, scoring two runs in each of the first two innings, and the Yankees seemed to have given up the game after that.

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That leaves them with a rotation of Andy Pettitte, Mike Mussina, Darrell Rasner, and a still-developing Joba Chamberlain, with Dan Giese expected to step into the fifth starter role.  That’s a shallow rotation, weighted at the older and younger ends like a barbell. Hurry up, C.C. Sabathia.

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OK, that title was irresistible, but in fact I'm going to say that Chien-Ming Wang's foot injury should force the Yanks hand in a trade, especially when combined with other injuries this season. Funny how little things can combine to lead to something even larger, accumulating momentum gradually until it becomes irresistible, as it has with the murmurs about a trade for C.C. Sabathia, which is really more the point of this blog.

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He ranks below John Franco (124) and above teammate Andy Pettitte (102), and is eleventh among non-eligible players. That he lands below Franco a durable and sometimes-dominant reliever and a skosh above Pettitte, a similar good-but-not-great pitcher with a few more years to go before his career spirals downward like Moose's has, is further indicative of his fair-to-middlin' status among today's pitching greats. Pettitte's been solid, too, but no HOFer in any conversation I've heard, and Franco's probably not going to make it, either.

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The talk at Spring Training mostly has surrounded around steroids these days.  Andy Pettitte reported on Monday and held a one-hour press conference to discuss his use of HGH and Alex Rodriguez showed up on Wednesday and he was asked questions right away (remember, Jose Canseco and John Rocker both have accused A-Rod of using performance enhancing drugs).  I am here to change the discussion to something much more positive and much more important.  What to do with the amazing Joba Chamberlain?  The Yankees have been saying all off-season that he was preparing to be in the starting rotation but just last week a New York newspaper cited a team source as saying Joba would begin the year in the bullpen and later move into the rotation.  The Yankees then said, again, he was going to prepare all spring to be a starter and they would make their decision closer to the beginning of the season.  This is a decision that could be the key to whether the Yankees make the playoffs or not and it is a very difficult decision to make. 

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