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Pettitte files for free agency

Andy Pettitte filed for free agency today. He is the last eligible Yankee
to do so as far as I can tell. The Yankees hold exclusive negotiating
rights with him through Thursday.

I think this week is when Mike Mussina will officially retire and maybe
when the Yankees will come to a deal with Pettitte. The big lefty said
Friday night he wants a one-year deal and he doesn’t want to go anywhere
else. So give him a little pay cut (say to $12 or $13 million) and get
it over with.

The Yankees need Pettitte and two more starters if you ask me, and
nobody did. Then you get a rotation like so:

1. Big-ticket free agent (Sabathia)
2. The Wanger
3. Fairly big-ticket free agent (Lowe or Burnett)
4. Pettitte
5. Jobamania

Now before you get in a tizzy over Joba being the fifth starter, consider
that his innings will be limited. They will have to skip him once a month
at the very least to accomplish this. That is what you do with your fifth
starter. Once the season starts labeling the starters is a useless exercise
anyway.

This will allow them to start pick somebody decent (Alfredo Aceves, say)
as a long reliever and to start Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy in AAA. Once
somebody gets hurt (and somebody always gets hurt), you have Hughes,
Kennedy, Jeff Marquez or whoever ready to fill in.

The Yankees need to insulate themselves now as best they can. Otherwise
it’s another June phone call to Sir Sidney.

This entry was posted on Sunday, November 9th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
by Peter Abraham

http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/11/09/pettitte-files-for-free-agency/

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※ 編輯: yyhong68        來自: 140.109.23.103       (11/10 11:13)
推 aresa:趕快簽回派派吧，09年輪值還需要他
推 economist:Otherwise it's another call to Sir Sidney.....XD
推 dan2002:很好奇為什麼洋基不肯簽Pettitte  薪資太高嘛?
→ jayin07:還早啦，11底之前還有原球隊續約權
→ jayin07:萬一過了時限再擔心也不遲
推 honlok:another call to Sir Sidney....lol
推 plug:1.錢要很多  2.rotation位置還有三個  但有5個人選
→ plug:所以根本不急  最後說不定不簽回來也OK
推 OoyaoO:在優先續約權消失前都不急
推 noahlin:只要一年怎麼看都該簽阿...
推 lovemost:樓上的話未免說的太輕鬆~今年薪水記得是16M...