Monday, January 26, 2009

Pettite Re-Signs With Yankees; Dodger Starting Rotation Gap Gets Larger

No Sabathia, no Burnett, no Lowe, no Penny. And now, no Andy Pettitte, who opts for another season in New York (one year, $5.5M), leaving the Dodgers with the same three options (and two holes) that we had in our starting rotation back in October:

NEW YORK -- Andy Pettitte's only thought was to stay with the New York Yankees. He had no interest in returning to his hometown Houston Astros.

Still, the 36-year-old left-hander was bothered when the Yankees wanted to cut his salary from $16 million to $10 million.

"Heck, the bottom line is I'm a man, and I guess it does take a shot at your pride a little bit," he said. "But when you put all that aside, I wanted to play for the New York Yankees and, you know, that was the bottom line. I wanted to be there. I wanted to play in that new stadium."

I have yet to hear a player say, "I wanted to be there. I wanted to play in front of the All You Can Eat Pavilion fans." But who knows, maybe it will happen (though I have to think that if anyone was going to say it, it would have been CC Sabathia).

Downward, towards the bottom of the starting pitching barrel, plunges Ned "Captain Nemo" Coletti...

2 comments:

BobDole said...

I have yet to hear a player say, "I wanted to be there. I wanted to play in front of the All You Can Eat Pavilion fans."

Furcal seemed like he wanted to stay in Los Angeles. And with that photo from about a week ago showing a fatter Furcal, maybe that's exactly what he was telling his agent.

Steve Sax said...

Maybe Furcal ate his agent.