Pettitte Has Three-Year, $36 Million Offer?

If Pettitte really had a 3-year offer, he'd have taken it by now.

Not gonna work Andy..Just take the 1 year deal from the Yankees or retire...

DODGERS!! WHOOO!!

wtf? who wants pettitte for the next three years?

He has a 3YR/$36M offer on the table but he's holding out for the Yanks to adjust their 1YR/$10M... sounds like BS to me.

Maybe the Nationals? lol

man andy you sure do make yourself look silly in this situation.

I wonder if his agents are using fellow aging/craty lefty Jamie Moyer's success as leverage at all.

If he's thinking about retiring, why would anyone offer him 3 years?

Hopefully this isn't the Braves. But I know we are looking for a lefty and some stability in the rotation. 3/36 seems ridiculous though.

The Yankees knew Pettitte was hurting (enough so that they sent him for 2 MRIs), yet they kept throwing him out there. It's rather slimy to do that, then offer him a huge paycut using his stats while hurt as justification.

I'm a big Andy Pettitte fan but if this opens the door for Ben Sheets I'd be ecstatic.

1)C.c
2)Wang
3)Burnett
4)Sheets
5)Joba

Thats just plain nasty.

gleb - so who pitches come september when burnett and sheets are hurt and joba has reached his innings limit

Red Sox?

Well if the Dodgers are offering up the much money for Pettitte, I am going to very angry..

That 36 million should be spent on Furcal, I think the Manny fund is a entirely different situation.

This is borderline heartbreaking.

I bet its the Dodgers... Torre loves him and Colletti is the new Brian Sabean. Paying outrageous amounts of cash to old players on the decline. ie. Andrew Jones, Casey Blake, Jason Schmidt, and now Andy Pettitte. LOL

Reading between the lines it sounds like he is saying to the yankees that he will take a paycut but not for just one year.

"I think sheets, burnett and joba in the same rotation is way too risky injury wise. We need a pettite or lowe"

True about the injury risk, but they do have long relievers on the team that have made starts and can take over for a brief period (Giese, Aceves, possibly Phil Coke was rumored to be a long reliever), not to mention Phil Hughes

I bet its the Dodgers... Torre loves him and Colletti is the new Brian Sabean. Paying outrageous amounts of cash to old players on the decline. ie. Andrew Jones, Casey Blake, Jason Schmidt, and now Andy Pettitte. LOL

Posted by: TimmaH55 | December 15, 2008 at 02:06 PM

Sad, but true.

Do not forget Pierre, Luis Gonzalez, and NoGood I mean NoMar...

He is also rumored to be interested in Vizquel, Alou, and Stan Musial...

Hmm, let's see here. We need to figure out which GM gives out contracts that are too long and/or cost too much money to players who are older, out of shape, misfit and/or overrated?

It's the Dodgers, that's for sure.

YES! DAMN!

How can one post equally excite me and frustrate me at the same time? I've been saying all along, well, for a few days anyhow, that the Mets are perhaps the best (and only?) candidate for Lowe, who I really want for our rotation. Logic dictates that the other three teams who were high on Lowe, the Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Phillies, would all be taken out of the bidding if they wound up getting the other players they were after. As a Met fan, I had hoped that the Yankees would actually get CC and AJ, knowing that if they did, they would probably go after Sheets for a shorter term contract and resign Pettitte to round out the rotation, which would then take them off the Lowe market, which of course, would be huge since they are the ones who scare Omar (and everyone else) the most. As for the RedSox, they are going hard after Texiera, and it looks like they will get him. If they do (then wow, what a lineup!), then they are likely to move away from Lowe. As for our rivales, the Phillies, who also wanted Lowe, wound up signing Ibanez and were hoping to sign Moyer, thus taking them out of the Lowe bidding. This would all take the three teams away from Lowe, thus both leaving Lowe available for the Mets and driving the price down. Add to this that Omar traded Schoenweiss to the Diamondbacks as a 2 mil. dollar salary dump, as opposed to using him to get Jason Marquis from the Cubs (and the Cubs would have even thrown money in the deal, not bad- 5 mil or so for a solid 5th starter), which led me to have strong suspicions that Omar was trying to free up some money to get Lowe instead of Perez.

Minaya seems to be playing the Lowe market just like he did the closer market, and it wouldn't surprise me one bit if we did wind up getting Lowe for a significantly cheaper deal than it seemed it would take to get him originally- can you say K-Rod, anybody? The same strategy could get Omar Derek Lowe for a sweet deal.

However, I found this news out first over on rotoworld.com, and I first read that the Phillies resigned Moyer, and I was like, YES!,
the Phillies are out of the Lowe market now. But then I saw the Pettitte rumor right afterwards, and it was a pretty obnoxious hit to the gut after I had just exhaled to say YES! for the Moyer signing. If Pettitte doesn't sign with the Yankees, there's an excellent chance the Yanks will go after both Sheets AND Lowe. That would suck, to say the least. Of course this rumor could be nothing, just Pettitte's people's way of getting that 12 ml. he wanted insead of the 10 mil. they offered.

We shall see, but I strongly feel that getting Lowe will give the Mets a very strong rotation to go with their impressive lineup, whereas Ollie would be too inconsistent, although it does often take lefties until their late 20's before the light bulb finally goes off- take a look at Randy Johnson's career, for example, and if Ollie did finally click over, given how young he still really is (doesn't it feel like the guy's been in the league for a long time?), he could be an amazing pitcher, dominant even, and from the left side! As for Wolf, well, he'd be really nice as a 5th starter, but no way would it make sense to have him as our #4 starter: Santana, Pelfrey,Maine, WOLF?, and Pitcher #5... this wouldn't be a particularly strong rotation. But I won't believe Minaya is actually going that route until I see it. Again, he did the same thing with K-Rod. He made everyone think he was willing to sign anyone that took the deal he was offering or the trade he was proposing, even though it would mean a significantly lesser closer in most of those cases... but he left just enough doubt in everyone's mind. He might be doing the same here. I hope so. I want Lowe! Let's turn that DAMN! into a YES! again.

there's a tasteless joke about HGH use in here somewhere but I'm not gonna say it.

I'm calling BS!

I wouldn't be surprised if he signed with the Dodgers on a 1 or 2 yr deal.

Giants on a 3 year deal. Why? Sabean isn't a good GM. Renteria for 2 and 18 in this market? Great move, why not see if two negatives can make a positive.

Pettitte... Come on, who gives an aging 4+ ERA pitcher, with one good pitch, 3 years. If anyone, it's the dodgers, and the amount is probably not accurate. Pettitte can keep his 4+ ERA, and find more than 10 million dollars somewhere else as long as he's not a yankee.

I'm guessing if its true the Red Sox offered it to him. If its true then he would of accepted it already if their weren't something holding him back. Which would be the rivalry and his legacy. A one time Yankee hero could look like a washed up mercenary in a matter of weeks.

I think it's the Braves. They are getting desperate for quality pitching.

He doesn't have another offer and IF he does he'd BETTER take it because its the land multi-year deal he'll ever get. I still see him coming back but if another team wants to offer him more he can leave. We'll still love him but he's not worth any more than $12M. If we had to go to $12 instead of $10 I'd be fine with that but NO MORE. We have youngsters and other FA and trade options. We dont need Andy but we'd like to have him back so if he really wants back FINE but we're not going to beg.