It's been a mystery to many why veteran left-hander Andy Pettitte hasn't taken the Yankees' $10-million offer. But here could be a clue as to why he hasn't: Pettitte's people apparently are telling folks he has a $36-million, three-year offer from another, unnamed team.I'm surprised anyone would offer him that kind of deal, not because he's not worth it, but because the only competition is a one-year $10 million offer from the Yanks.
This might just be a way for Andy and his agents to get the Yankees to offer more money. They could be thinking that if the Yankees believe another team has a three-year deal on the table maybe the Yankees would be willing to up their offer to $12-$14 million.
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Someone needs to jog Andy's memory on who stood by him when he admitted to "CHEATING". Cashman should just tell Andy "hey thanks, its been fun, keep in touch for old timers day..." What a BLEEPING BUM...
Doubt it. Who's going to offer that?
Loyalty is a two-way street guys. The Yanks were indeed loyal to Andy last year, but Andy was also very cooperative with the Yanks by signing one-year deals the last few years. He knew the Yanks were desperate and wanted him badly in 2007 and he could have easily asked for a longer, more expensive deal. I want Andy back, and I agree $10 million is still even too much for him right now, but Andy has been loyal to the Yankees too.
When can we start waving goodbye then?
if this is true, we can part ways right now. its been fun andy, but we're probably not budging from our 1 year deal worth about 10 million or so. maybe we'll let the kids split time with the 5 spot, hughes and aceves, or we can buy another stater( sheets or lowe), or make a trade.
it would give us 10 million more to go out and get teixeira, but we would still need an innings eater. what to do? i have a felling that we will eventually cough up 3-5 more million and he'll resign with us
Andy-take the $$$$$$$$$ and run.
If Andy won't bite, go sign Ben Sheets to a two year deal in the 24 million range. And let Andy take that 3 year 36 million offer.
At Pettitte's age and off the season he just had, there is NO WAY somebody offered him 3 years at $36 Million. Maybe 2 years at $24 million tops. This is a bluff by the Hendricks brothers in my opinion.
I also think it's a bluff, but let's say it isn't and he ends up taking the deal. At that point I think the Yankees should hold off on signing another pitcher, let Hughes, Aceves, Kennedy fight over that fifth spot in the rotation and sign a bat, you know like Mark Teixeira.
There have also been rumors swirling around that the Yankees may not have liked what they saw in Ben Sheets' medical report, so they may have given up on signing him completely.
There is no TEAM with that offer. If I am Cash, I drop a dead line by the end of this week.
Saturday, if he has not accepted our deal, we sign someone else.
Greg nailed it. Throw that extra $10 million Teixeira's way and have a good old fashioned competition to get the 5th and final spot in the Yankees rotation during Spring Training...It would be fun to watch, toughen up our young pitchers and make them earn it. I will be happy if Pettitte comes back and retires a Yankee, but at this point I much rather give that money toward Tex. Remember the new math equation. $88 million off the payroll last year. $42 million for AJ and CC. That leaves $46 million to spend. Without Andy, we can give Tex the $20 million per he is looking for and still save $26 million over last season. In fact, give Teixeira $22 million per and blow away the competition. Lets get this done before Christmas.
Good-bye Andy you bum! If he's faking this offer he's a real piece of garbage in my book. Let's tell him to get lost and put that money toward Tex.
I like Peter F.'s math!
Bye, Andy. Enjoy playing on that "Other Team."
Mike
What is Andy doing? Honestly, I'm really sick of it now. The Yankees have never lowballed Pettitte. Even when he went to Houston, he had a comparable offer from the Yankees (some reports even had him being offered MORE by the Yankees), and they paid him $16M last season for a pretty bad overall year.
I mentioned it before, but over the course of his career, the Yankees have paid Pettitte somewhere over $80M total. That's not enough? Now he's got to squeeze a few extra pennies out?
Look, I like Andy. I'm not trying to knock the guy. But he's an admitted steroid user, he's been payed very well over the course of what's been for the most part a slightly above average pitcher. He's had an ERA under 4 in the AL only 4 times in 11 seasons, and over the last two years with the Yankees he's had a 1.4 WHIP both years. $32M for two years of league-average performance, and a 29-23 record. He was clearly overpaid these last two years. So why can't he take what's a very respectable offer of $10M and just go with it? For a guy that's made well over $100M in his career, what's the point of holding out for an extra couple $M? How many extra Lamborghinis do you need to buy for each of your kids?
Like I said before - just once I'd love to have a Yankee finish out his career by taking a "hometown discount" without threatening to go somewhere else or bleeding us for every last dollar. Then, when they don't give in, suddenly it's the Yankees who are low balling their stars of legendary status by not paying above market value.
There is no way any team offered him this contract. This is complete BS.
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