How about Andy Pettitte? Despite his three-year hiatus from the Bronx Bombers, Pettitte has as many World Series rings (five) as teammates Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, and Jorge Posada, and even had the chance at another in 2005 with the Astros, who were swept by the White Sox in the Fall Classic that year. With four wins during his team’s run to their 27th World Series Championship, Pettitte passed John Smoltz for the all-time Major League lead with 18 career postseason wins, 17 of which have come as a member of the Yankees. Yankee fans are anxious to see whether Pettitte will decide to retire or play another year in the Bronx.
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11 September 2009
Last week I saw Andy Pettitte throw six and two-thirds innings of perfect baseball at against the Orioles at Camden Yards. With two outs in the bottom of the seventh, Adam Jones hit a ground ball to third. Alex Rodriguez was getting the night off, and his replacement at the hot corner, Jerry Hairston, booted it. Having grown up an Orioles fan and somewhere along the way developing into a Yankee-hater, one might think I would have been rooting for the Birds to end Pettitte’s bid for perfection; however, this was not so. As a fan of the game, I wanted to witness history. Sure; I would have preferred seeing an Oriole pitcher throw a perfecto (though even a shutout by one of this year’s starters would have been historic), but I can’t expect miracles.
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29 April 2009
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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27 July 2008
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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4 July 2008
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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19 June 2008
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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16 June 2008
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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3 May 2008
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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