He will find it very difficult to find a team that will pay him more than $10 million for one year. So apparently, he really does not want to be a Yankee.Īpparently he really does not love New York.Īpparently he really does not want to play in the new Yankee Stadium. The Yankees offered more money, and Pettitte rejected it. While most fans would rather see Pettitte in pinstripes than Johnson, it would be hard to argue that Pettitte is now worth more money than Johnson, who is a certain Hall of Famer, whereas Andy is not. By contrast, another big lefty, Randy Johnson, just signed a one-year deal with the San Francisco Giants for a reported $8 million. The Yankees offered one year at $10 million. Andy Pettitte Position: Pitcher Bats: Left Throws: Left Born: Jin Baton Rouge, LA us Draft: Drafted by the New York Yankees in the 22nd round. Now, if he were to return to the Yankees, he would be the Number Five starter on a team that finished third in their division last year. He is older and had injury problems in 2008.Īt one time Pettitte was a Number One or Two starter on the best team in baseball. Very few people can doubt that Pettitte is no longer worth $16 million dollars. Nothing was certain about the 2008 season, but finally Pettitte took another one-year deal for $16 million.īut 2008 was a down year for Pettitte and the Yankees, who failed to make the postseason for the first time since 1995. He seemed to be happy to back in the Bronx and talked effusively about how good it felt to pitch without pain in his elbow. So he came back to the Yankees, signing for the 2007 season, when he pitched reasonably well and was healthy. Last year Andy Pettitte was 14-14 with an ERA in excess. But Andy wanted $14 mil, and when the 'Stros wouldn't budge, he again was quoted as saying that he felt like he was not appreciated.Īnd he had been injured as an Astro and had not had stellar numbers in his last season there. The news today is that Andy Pettitte, through his agents the Hendricks brothers, has rejected the Yankees' offer of one year at 10 million. There was every reason to believe that that was true when no effort had been made to sign him.Īfter 2006, when his contract with Houston was up, the Astros offered him $12 million a year to re-sign. Pettitte was quoted after the 2003 season as saying he felt as though the Yankees did not appreciate him.
#ANDY PETTITTE SERIES#
That year he went 21-8 for the New York Yankees, who played in the World Series for the sixth time since Pettitte had joined the team.īut during his tenure with the Yankees, principal owner George Steinbrenner had often talked of trading Pettitte and never seemed to appreciate the pitcher.Īfter his brilliant 2003 season, Steinbrenner made no real effort to sign the lefty, and Pettitte left for Texas, signing a three-year deal with the Houston Astros, where he was once again teamed with his Texas buddy, Roger Clemens. In 2003 Andy Pettitte was in the prime of his career. His wife is from Texas, and her father pastors a church in Deer Park, where Andy and she have been very active in the church.
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