Andy Pettitte

here are the top five free agent pitchers:

(1) Ben Sheets, (2) Oliver Perez, (3) Jon Garland, (4) Andy Pettitte, and (5) Randy Wolf

Sheets is unquestionably the best pitcher of the group, but his injury history is immensely discouraging. Even though he's the top gun remaining, I wouldn't touch him if I were the Mets. He'll get hurt and either Jon Niese or Bobby Parnell will be in the rotation before we know it. Can't have one of them on top of Maine and Redding.

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icit for the divisional race, and six games behind Boston for the Wild Card.  Mike Mussina and Andy Pettitte are showing signs of slowing down, and the back end of the rotation is not solid enough for the Yankees to make a big enough run, even if the offense heats up.  This will likely be the end of a 13-year playoff run in the Bronx.

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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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p>The first place Rays head to Yankee Stadium for the front end of a two-game series tonight.  Andy Pettitte (9-6) will take the hill for New York against Scott Kazmir (7-3) for Tampa Bay, who lead the third place Yankees by 8.5 games in the AL East.  The Red Sox are in second place, four games back.

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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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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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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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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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