Category: Andy Pettitte
Thursday, November 29th, 2012
Andy Pettitte is coming back to the Bronx for another season. This one appears to be his last. The left-hander agreed to a one-year contract for $12 million, plus incentive bonuses, for the upcoming season. Pettitte was a late addition to the Yankees' roster last spring, but as usual he ...
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Monday, June 25th, 2012
To Rusty Hardin, lawyer for Roger Clemens, the jury's decision to acquit him of all of his charges last week came simply because his peers on that panel saw that Clemens not only didn't lie to Congress about using performance-enhancing drugs, he simply never used them. Period.
Perhaps we'll never know ...
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Thursday, June 7th, 2012
It's hard to believe that Andy Pettitte shut down the Tampa Bay Rays without throwing a single pitch that was faster than 89 mph. The man will be turning 40 in a little over a week. It was also foolish for many of us to doubt Pettitte's ability on the ...
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Thursday, April 5th, 2012
The New York media was all over Joe Girardi for having too many pitchers going into spring training for the starting rotation. At this point in time the Yankees manager already doesn't have enough starting pitching and the regular season for his team is set to start Friday. It goes to ...
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Monday, February 7th, 2011
Andy Pettitte's retirement from baseball marks the beginning of the end for the New York Yankees illustrious "Core Four" that includes Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada and Mariano Rivera. It has been a tumultuous offseason for the Bronx Bombers, who not only failed in their attempt to land the "big fish" ...
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
When you're the New York Yankees and you resolve hot stove topics in the offseason, those answers seem to simply beget more questions. And that's the case again this year, despite the fact that Brian Cashman signed veterans Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera to deals.
Now it's all about whether the ...
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Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
I'm not sure if it's the difference between the manager (and radio host) in New York as opposed to Atlanta or the difference between a kid from Peoria, IL who went to Northwestern and a guy from Tulsa who went straight to the minor leagues after high school, but the ...
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Friday, May 21st, 2010
The crafty veteran, left-handed pitcher, Andy Pettitte along with Philip Hugheshas been the best Yankees pitcher so far this season. Pettitte, who is known as a being a great second-half-of-the-season player, is off to the best start of his fifteen year career and is 5-1 with a 2.68 ERA in ...
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Joe Girardi has the most pressurized job in all of sports as the manager of the New York Yankees. I mean, every coaching job in sports is pressure-packed, but there's nothing quite like managing the Yankees. The Yanks are used to winning championships. Girardi of course, failed to bring home ...
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
New York Yankees managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner offered up a few minutes of his Tuesday early afternoon to talk to Mike Francesca of WFAN about the state of the Yankees after a whirlwind off-season. Andy Pettitte re-signed yesterday, CC Sabathia, Mark Teixeira and AJ Burnett were signed as free agents, Joe ...
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