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After months of negotiations the pitcher Andy Pettitte decided to stay with the New York Yankees rather than going back to the Houston Astros. Pettitte had to accept the cut of the offer he had two months ago of $10 million to a $5.5 million one year deal, which is almost half of what he was expecting; however he could probably make some extras, resembling in incentives it will be around $6.5 million, that sum will be divided in $4.5 million based on the innings and $2 million if he stays active in the team’s roaster. So, adding those bonuses it would make almost a $12 million deal.

Andy’s agent Randy Hendricks said that if everything goes fine and he plays like he has done before, he can attain more earnings and there will be no regrets.  If not, it will be just one of those lessons you get from life itself and of the good or bad negotiations you can make in a professional baseball career.

"Heck, the bottom line is I'm a man, and I guess it does take a shot at your pride a little bit," said the New York Yankees pitcher. "But when you put all that aside, I wanted to play for the New York Yankees and, you know, that was the bottom line. I wanted to be there. I wanted to play in that new stadium"

In 2007 Pettitte signed a 1 year deal with the New York Yankees that was worth $16 million, with an open option to stay for one more year with the same salary. During the first season Pettitte had an excellent record, however, last season his record was not that good due in part to a shoulder ache that bothered him in the final part of the season. Pettitte finished 14-14 with a 4.54 ERA, but for his last 11 starts he went 2-7, 6.23.

So, after the Yankees initially cut the pitcher’s salary for this season to $10 million, Pettitte’s agents thought that he could get a better deal from another team, perhaps in a multi-year deal or something of that sort, but since the decision of retirement has been wandering around on Andy’s mind at the end of the last three seasons and he is 36 years old now, he figured out that he would like to play the rest of his time with the Yankees.

The Yankees withdrew his first offer to Andy when they finally signed first base Mark Teixeira in an 8 year contract of $180 million; that deal combined with the contracts of CC Sabathia and AJ Burnett summed a total of $423.5 million that the Yankees spent.

Pettitte’s desire of ending his playing time with the Yankees is understandable due to he has spent the most of his career with them; this is the team where he started his professional career in 1995 and he stayed with them for nine consecutive seasons. In 2003 Pettitte left the Yankees to sign a 3 year contract with the Houston Astros that was worth $31.5 million. Two years later, in 2005, Pettitte helped the Astros to get into to the World Series for the first time. He stayed with the Astros until the 2006 season and after that we went back to the Yankees.

In his career, Pettite has attained four World Series championships with the Yankees and made it to the playoffs in every year except for 2006 and 2008.

Anyhow, we wish the best to Andy and we hope this year will not be the last for him, since he is a great pitcher. We expect he can achieve a lot of good things this 2009 season and show some of his experience and talent in the baseball field with the Yankees.

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