Hail and Farewell, Andy Pettitte

February 4, 2011

The long-time Yankee pitcher (with a brief diversion through Houston), will announce his retirement today.

Pettitte was one of the Mt. Rushmore of Yankees who came up through the minor league system and brought a new dynasty in the mid 1990s, including Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada, and Mariano Rivera. Pettitte had that one PED bump in an otherwise upstanding career. While his won-loss record is outstanding —  240-138 — his ERA is relatively high a 3.88 and he has only four “black marks,” indicating leading the league in a category (and three of those were in game starts). He won 21 games twice, but only once after his second season and was an All-Star “only” three times. Let the Hall of Fame debates begin.

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