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A few days after the greedy clown Alex Rodriguez decided to opt out of his contract … Andy Pettitte (a real Yankee) made the statement they he would play with the Yankees, or for no one at all.
The 35-year-old Pettitte told a television station on Tuesday at his Houston-area golf tournament that he is in no rush to trigger his $16 million player option for next season, with a decision required by 10 days after the close of the World Series. “The New York Yankees committed an awful lot of money to me and put it in my hands, gave me a player option and trusted me with that option,” Pettitte told KRIV-TV. “It probably wouldn’t be real honorable for me not to do anything other than if I shut it down, shut it down or go back and play for the New York Yankees.”
Pettitte went 15-9 with a 4.05 ERA in 34 starts and two relief appearances for the Yankees in 2007. He tied for first in the American League in starts with seven other pitchers and ranked ninth in the circuit with 215 1/3 innings pitched. Pettitte has a lifetime record of 201-113 in a Major League career that began with the Yankees in 1995. He has posted a winning record and made at least 15 starts in each of his 13 seasons in the big leagues, and he earned his 200th career victory on Sept. 19 vs. the Orioles. Pettitte’s 164 wins as a Yankee tie him with Mel Stottlemyre for sixth place on the club’s all-time list.
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Joe Girardi, the 2006 National League Manager of the Year and a member of three Yankees World Series championship clubs, beat out Don Mattingly and Tony Pena in an intensive interview process conducted
last week in Tampa, to become the new Yankees manager.
Girardi was a member of the Yankees’ 1996, ‘98 and ‘99 World Series clubs. Girardi served as Torre’s bench coach in 2005 before guiding the Marlins to a 78-victory season in ‘06, keeping the club in Wild Card contention into the final week of the campaign but falling out of favor with owner Jeffrey Loria and general manager Larry Beinfest.
The decision to go with Girardi will end Mattingly’s four-season run as a member of the Yankees’ coaching staff. One of the most popular players of his era, Mattingly served for three seasons as a hitting coach and spent 2007 as Torre’s bench coach, saying that he had an eye on managing the organization for which he played from 1982-95. Don Mattingly said he “will use this time to reflect on this experience while considering future family and career options. In the meantime, he did inform the Yankees that given the circumstances, he won’t accept a coaching position within the organization during 2008.”
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Alex Rodriguez has decided to opt out of the remaining portion of his $252 million contract with the Yankees, ESPN reports. His agent, Scott Boras, said the uncertain return of Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada and Andy Pettitte was the deciding factor. “He really didn’t want to make any decisions until he knew what they were doing,” Boras said. Rodriguez has until 10 days after the end of the World Series to opt out of his deal, but it looks like he’s already decided. If Yankees GM Brian Cashman follows through with his promise not to negotiate with Rodriguez if he opted out, A-Rod will be the hottest free agent on the market and this could start an offseason of upheaval in the Bronx.
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The Yankees released a statement Thursday which read, “There has been widespread speculation about who the next manager of the New York Yankees will be. The evaluation process is continuing and there will be no immediate decision or announcement.”
Steinbrenner told reporters waiting outside the club’s Spring Training facility that no decision has yet been reached, but that could soon change. Steinbrenner said that the Yankees could have a decision before the end of the World Series, although to comply with Commissioner Bud Selig’s edict that teams do not distract attention from the World Series, they will not announce it before then.
“We’re going to honor Bud’s wishes, and that’s the bottom line,” Steinbrenner said Thursday.
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Wednesday was Day 3 of the New York Yankees managerial search in Tampa, and it was Tony Pena’s turn.
“I’m capable to manage this ballclub,” Pena said on a conference call from Tampa. “I’m capable to take this ballclub to the final line, which is to win the World Series. I feel we have great talent in this organization.” “With the talent that we have, I think we can do it this year,” Pena said. “There’s no question in my mind that we have the capability and we have the talent to go and do the job.”
Pena, 50, completed his second season as the Yankees’ first-base coach this year after spending parts of four seasons as the Kansas City Royals’ manager from 2002 into 2005.
Pena’s interview followed Girardi and Mattingly…andit looks as if they are the 3 finalists. The Yankees may announce their decision on Friday.
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Tuesday marked Day 2 of the interviewing process for the New York Yankees managerial position. Todays candidate: Don Mattingly.
“I knew from the beginning what I wanted,” Mattingly said. “I just wasn’t willing to talk about it publicly. I was trying to take it all in.” Mattingly, 46, followed Joe Girardi in the search process and was put through similar paces Girardi faced Monday, spending time at Legends Field and the Yankees’ Minor League complex in a lengthy interview session. “If I get the opportunity to manage this club, it’s about going forward,” Mattingly said. “It’s about winning games and doing whatever we can to win. If I don’t do that and I don’t do my job, and I get criticism, that’s part of it.
“I’m not afraid of criticism or what somebody may think. I’m going to do what’s best, trying to make a good decision and an intelligent decision. If it doesn’t work out, I’m going to take the heat. I understand it. I’ve been in New York, and it’s part of it. If I had fear, I wouldn’t have got on the plane.” “Every game I’m involved with, I’m pretty much managing in my mind,” Mattingly said. “As games went along, I’ve been managing for four years, for my own part, and paying attention to things that go on around the club, the way things are handled, addressed and taken care of.
DAY 3 of the process will continue on Wednesday, when Tony Pena will be interviewed.
DONNIE BASEBALL … *clap clap, clap clap clap*
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Joe Girardi is leading off the Yankees’ search for a new manager, meeting with club executives at Legends Field in Tampa, Fla. Girardi is preceding Don Mattingly in the sequence, with Mattingly expected to be interviewed on Tuesday. A third candidate, first-base coach Tony Pena, is likely to follow on Wednesday.
Girardi, 43, spent the 2007 season as a broadcaster with the YES Network after managing the Florida Marlins in 2006. A former catcher for 15 seasons in the Major Leagues — including playing the 1996 through 1999 seasons with the Yankees, winning three World Series rings — Girardi served for one season as Joe Torre’s bench coach in 2005 before accepting the Marlins job. Gerardi led a MArlins team which previously was in last place, to 78 wins and earning Girardi honors as the National League Manager of the Year.
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Joe Torre “declined” the Yankees offer of a contract extension today, ending his 12 year tenor as Yankee skipper. The offer would have paid Torre a base salary of $5 million, with $1 million bonuses for each level of the postseason the Yankees reached next season. Those bonuses would have meant that Torre could have earned as much as $8 million in 2008. and if the Yankees made it to the World Series next season, his contract would have vested for 2009, with a base salary of $8 million.
“This has been a great 12 years,” Torre said. “Whatever happens from here on out, I’ll look back on these 12 years with great, great pleasure.”
In my opinion… I think the Yankees wanted Torre out… and were bascially making it look like they were doing the “right thing” by offering him a contract. I agree with the Yankees move in doing so …because it is time for another option. As far as Torre goes… I will always remember his enjoyable years with the Yankees … but the time had come to move on. I do not think Torre will manage another team, because it may end up showing what kind of manager he may really be..when he doesnt have the caliber players that the Yankees have.
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Today marked DAY #1 of the post season meetings in Tampa for the NY Yankees brass. The most important question of the meetings, is going to be “Will Joe Torre manage in 2008?” … but after Day 1…. the question remains unanswered.
The Yankees released a statement shortly after 4:30 p.m. ET, saying: “The meetings are adjourned for tonight. There have been no decisions made, nor will there be any comment today. The meetings will resume tomorrow.”
In addition to settling the Torre issue, Yankees decision-makers are expected to tackle courses of action in dealing with the club’s numerous potential free agents, including an expected contract extension offer for Alex Rodriguez and plans for lifetime Yankees Jorge Posada and Mariano Rivera, both of whom are seeking multi-year contracts.
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Although we all enjoyed watching Joba Chamberlain come into games and dominate as the set up man for Rivera, it has been announced that Joba Chamberlain will be in the starting rotation to start next spring, and club senior vice president Hank Steinbrenner has confirmed.
“The only thing that’s been decided, [the one thing] that we all agree on, is that Chamberlain and [Phillip] Hughes start out Spring Training as starters,” Steinbrenner said.
Chamberlain was 2-0 with a 0.38 ERA and one save in 19 relief appearances with the big ballclub. Chamberlain made 15 starts in the Minor Leagues between Class A Tampa, Double-A Trenton and Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. He was 9-2 with a 2.56 ERA, allowing 24 earned runs and 61 hits while walking 27 and striking out 125 in 84 1/3 innings.
In my opinion, I have a few doubts in having Chamberlain as a starter. It seemed as if he lost noticable amounts of velocity on his pitches, after one inning of pitching…and even did not look good when pitching back to back days. Hopefully, Joba is starter material … but either way..it’s good to see a young arm on the staff.
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