Andy Pettite

There’s going to be a short couple of days here where the Yankees deal with their guilt about spending all this money.

Then they’ll get right back to it. Because they can.

There are already several media folks out there right now trumpeting the “they can resign Pettitte and still have a smaller team salary than last year” horseshit, as though letting a team’s salary cap be 210 million dollars in the first place is perfectly okay.

Face it, it’s the whole "I"m rich, you’re not, deal with it" mentality that MLB has set up for the Yanks to do whatever they want.

The MLB is becoming more and more of a joke with each passing offseason. All you have to do is look at how the NFL has structured itself, promoting parity and competition amongs all teams, from ownership and upper management needing to excel in managing a budget, drafting talent, trading talent, on down to the players themselves. In the MLB all it takes is to be a Yankee manager and open a checkbook to answer any and all problems, while at least two dozen clubs in the league have zero opportunity to obtain premiere players.

That may be true about the Yankees and Red Sox spending a ton of money, but you look at the past 10 WS winners, and MLB has had 8 different winners. Compared to the NFL, they’ve only had 6 different winners in the past 10. The NBA is even worse with only 4 different teams. Regardless of the spending difference, the MLB has been the most even of most of the major sports.

Regarding Pettite, I think the Yanks will sign him. Plus he wanted more than what he was getting paid for last year, which i think was close to 14 mill, so I doubt the Angels would be willing to pay that for a 4th or 5th starter.

the playoffs but you need five (sometimes 6-7) to get there

to the Yankees or Dodgers. Probably the Yankees though. I wouldn’t mind having him though.

Of course, that’s because the team that will sign him is one that pays more attention to a player’s name than his actual performance.