The Yankees have re-signed Andy Pettitte to a 1 year 16-million dollar contract. The New York Post reports the details including this interesting excerpt:"Pettitte owns a 201-113 career record with a 3.83 ERA. He ranks third in the majors in wins since his debut in 1995 behind Greg Maddux (216) and Randy Johnson (203), and has posted a winning record and made at least 15 starts in each of his 13 Major League campaigns. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, he joins Cy Young (15 seasons, 1890-1904) as the only pitchers in history to accomplish the feat in the first 13 years of their careers."
Impressive pitcher, more impressive person, when Andy decided to pass on his option, the entire staff of Baseball Hot Corner (me) assumed it was a negotiating ploy designed to get him more money for a longer term and the Clemens family package. I under-estimated Andy's integrity (big mistake.) In this era of greed is good, Andy Pettitte is an exception to the rule.
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Pettitte's is the one name that I most fear being on Mitchell's report today... If he is implicated, you can't trust *anything* that's happened in baseball the past 12 years, and that would be sad.
Jerry, I agree, unfortunately performance enhancing drugs mean different things but everybody named will be painted with the same brush.
Just curious, but do people "trust" what happens in the NFL? Because all the players are on steroids, does it affect your enjoyment of the game? Or because no one cares about NFL records, does that make it different? I've never understood why people have this infatuation with comparing stats from different eras when the game is completely different now.
This just in: Andy Pettitte, in fact, has no integrity.
Deal with it!
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