Comments on: Signing Pettitte makes the off-season clearer

By: toad

toad — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:04:00 +0000

Sign Pettitte. That is all.

By: JMK aka The Overshare

JMK aka The Overshare — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:38:04 +0000

Fine, we’ll take Mike Dunleavy!

By: Mr.Jigginz

Mr.Jigginz — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:19:35 +0000

Whoa…Wrong post.My bad,lol.

By: Mr.Jigginz

Mr.Jigginz — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:16:49 +0000

For the rule 5 pick?Mike Axisa,you are a genius!!!

By: tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside

tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:04:59 +0000

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By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:19:31 +0000

Yikes. Lofgren was brutal with the Clippers.

By: Mike HC

Mike HC — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:19:18 +0000

I’m just predicting on what the contract will end up being. Not what I would offer. And now I am thinking more like one year, 13.37 million.

The contract I would prefer to give Pettitte is almost exactly what you wrote, 11 million base with 2-3 million in incentives.

I just have a feeling there will not be any incentives in Pettitte’s deal this year. Not really based on anything but on the fact Pettitte will probably prefer it that way. But what the hell do I know???

By: JMK aka The Overshare

JMK aka The Overshare — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:16:54 +0000

Here’s how I see this all going down: Yankees sign Andy to a 1-year $13-14 million deal, no incentives OR $11 million guaranteed with an extra allotment for incentives.

We just saved $2 million** by letting go a future manager at Subway (Bruney), and may use that to shore up arguably the Yankees’ most pressing off-season need.

**Note: I like the Nats picking Chuck Lofgren for the Yanks with the first pick of the Rule V draft as the PTBNL in the Bruney deal. He could be a good swingman or LOOGY reliever, especially if Marte is sharing the 8th with K-Rob.

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:13:17 +0000

What’s wrong with incentives?
Why not an 11 million base with 3-4 in incentives. Judging from your above posts it seems for some reason you’re really against these incentives which are basically a small insurance policy. I don’t understand why.

By: king of fruitless hypotheticals

king of fruitless hypotheticals — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:13:03 +0000

based on the word ‘fruitless’ i’m going to go with ‘no.’

i have no concrete knowledge of the fact, but i’ve always made my living by guessing based on circumstantial evidence…