[新聞] Agents Work to Avoid a Pay Cut for Pettitte

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簡單說，Pettitte的經紀人傾向讓他還是拿差不多的薪水不接受減薪（報載洋基的offer大約是10M）而Andy說談薪水這事他交給經紀人處理他個人是想要回到洋基的.... Cashman也說想讓Andy回來，目前兩造的差異就是在價錢上，想要在價錢上取得共識，是有點說得比做的容易多。（就是說還有點難度) Agents Work to Avoid a Pay Cut for Pettitte By JACK CURRY Published: December 3, 2008 Before the Yankees ended their disappointing 2008 season, Andy Pettitte toured the new Yankee Stadium. While he was in the spacious clubhouse, he picked out the locker that he said he wanted to use in 2009. Whether or not Pettitte will ever hang a pinstriped uniform in that locker is still uncertain. The pitching-needy Yankees want to re-sign Pettitte, and Pettitte reiterated Wednesday that he wanted to return, but the two sides are at a stalemate over his salary. “I mean, to tell you the truth, like I’ve told you all a hundred times, I’ve made it loud and clear where I’d like to play at,” Pettitte, 36, said in a telephone interview. “I’m just basically sitting here letting my agents do their job really.” What Randy and Alan Hendricks, Pettitte’s agents, are trying to do is to make sure their client avoids a pay cut. Pettitte made $16 million last season, one of the highest salaries in the major leagues for a pitcher, and his agents have stressed that he wants the same salary. The Yankees have offered Pettitte $10 million, and they seemingly have no immediate plans to improve their offer. “We’d like to have him back,” General Manager Brian Cashman said Wednesday. “It’s come to the arena of trying to achieve common ground on money, which is easier said than done.” Pettitte battled shoulder problems last season and ended up 14-14 with a 4.54 earned run average, including a 2-7 mark to finish the year. The Yankees believe Pettitte, who pitched a team-high 204 innings, can still be an effective starter, but they consider a $16 million investment in him to be too expensive. When Pettitte was asked about possibly accepting a pay cut to come back, he dodged the topic. “Again, for me to even talk about anything right now, it does no good,” Pettitte said. “I really don’t even want to talk about it or anything, as far as what that has to do with me and all that. I’m just letting Randy and Alan and the Yankees work things out. I’m basically just trying to enjoy my off-season with my family, and that’s it.” By declining to offer Pettitte salary arbitration Monday, the Yankees did not risk having him accept it and earn at least $16 million next season. One major league executive, whose team is also pursuing starters, said he would be surprised if Pettitte received any offers close to $16 million a season. If the Yankees re-sign Pettitte, he will join Chien-Ming Wang and Joba Chamberlain in their rotation. Adding Pettitte may give Cashman some leverage in pursuing other free agents like C. C. Sabathia, A. J. Burnett and Derek Lowe. The Yankees are handling Pettitte similarly to the way they dealt with Mike Mussina, who retired last month, in 2006. After Mussina went 15-7 in the final year of a six-year, $88.5 million deal, the Yankees declined to exercise his $17 million option. But both sides wanted the relationship to continue, which resulted in Mussina’s taking a reduced salary with a two-year, $23 million deal. Pettitte told the Yankees he was exercising his one-year, $16 million option in December 2007. Ten days later, Brian McNamee, Pettitte’s former trainer, was quoted in the Mitchell report saying that Pettitte had used human growth hormone. Pettitte, who did not tell the Yankees of the possibility he would be mentioned in the report, acknowledged that he had used H.G.H. Pettitte has spoken to Joe Torre, the manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers and his former manager with the Yankees, but that might have been a ploy to get the Yankees to try to offer him arbitration. Pettitte declined to discuss the Dodgers or Torre. While he was hesitant to discuss himself, he has addressed the Yankees’ $140 million pursuit of Sabathia. “Anywhere I go, that’s all anybody wants to talk about,” Pettitte said. As Pettitte’s agents negotiate with the Yankees, the Yankees realize that he has repeatedly said that they are his first choice. When Pettitte was presented with the possibility that the Yankees could re-sign him during next week’s winter meetings, he said: “I hope so. That would be great.” Tyler Kepner contributed reporting. A version of this article appeared in print on December 4, 2008, on page B15 of the New York edition. http://tinyurl.com/6hjpwk -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 140.109.23.32

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