Friday Filberts
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...in which he didn't appear on a single Cy Young ballot? Hey, watch out for Andy Pettitte; there are still nearly two weeks to go in the year! * Jason Rosenberg asks an interesting...
Blog | December 18, 2009Top 100 players of the decade
Rob Neyer, ESPN.comAlbert Pujols and Alex Rodriguez were the clear-cut first two choices for the top 100 players of the decade; after that, the list got a little more difficult.
Story | Conversation | December 14, 2009Kneejerk Reactions: Game 6
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...World Series. Nobody pitched brilliantly on short rest -- CC Sabathia got lifted in the seventh inning, Andy Pettitte in the sixth, and, of course, A.J. Burnett got blasted -- but with that lineup, the...
Blog | November 04, 2009Fisking Pettitte's Cooperstown credentials
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotIf Andy Pettitte wins tonight, a lot of people are going to say a lot of nice things about...
Blog | November 04, 2009Kneejerk Reactions: Game 3
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...fifth, Hamels struck out Melky Cabrera. But then Hamels left a curveball over the plate and Andy Pettitte laced a single to drive in Swisher with the tying run. Hamels unraveled, giving up a...
Blog | November 01, 2009Will Howard get a pitch he can hit?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...Phillies hitters against a Yankees' rotation that features two solid left handed pitchers, CC Sabathia and Andy Pettitte. The Phillies will face a lefty starter in at least half of the World Series games...
Blog | October 28, 2009Figuring Yankee rotation
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...will start Games 1, 4 and (if necessary) 7, and that both A.J. Burnett and Andy Pettitte will make their second Series starts on short rest. Like this: 10/28 -- Sabathia 10/29...
Blog | October 27, 2009Pettitte piles up innings, dollars
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotPete Abraham on an incentive-laden contract that's worked out well for everyone: Andy Pettitte signed a one-year, $5.5 million deal with the Yankees that -- after much negotiation -- was...
Blog | September 22, 2009Worrying about Andy Pettitte
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...competitors, but barring some other stunning news, my column for tomorrow's Newsday will cover Andy Pettitte's shoulder "fatigue." Weren't we just talking yesterday about the baseball...
Blog | September 15, 2009Making sense of Granderson's slump
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotRemembering when we were debating who was the greatest center fielder in the game, Grady Sizemore or Curtis Granderson. Now that seems like a long tim...
Blog | September 15, 2009Girardi's (Division Series) choice
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...can roughly match the Yankees' No. 2 (whether it's A.J. Burnett or Andy Pettitte), with the Tigers (Edwin Jackson) probably holding a slight edge. I assumed that Girardi's...
Blog | September 09, 2009Lester and Beckett a dominant duo
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...top two starters for each contender, except in a couple of cases. Fortunately, in those cases -- Andy Pettitte vs. A.J. Burnett with the Yankees, Chad Billingsley and Clayton Kershaw with the Dodgers -- it...
Blog | September 07, 2009Buehrle reminds us (again) that he's good
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...various other Hall of Famers. It's better than CC Sabathia, Josh Beckett, Jake Peavy, Andy Pettitte, and John Lackey. But would Joe Fan or Rob Blogger put Buehrle on the same level...
Blog | July 23, 2009Bill James on steroids
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...aside from his certainty that Dick Allen will make it, plus he seems to have missed Andy Pettitte's acknowledged PED use -- is that I think his timetable's off by a...
Blog | July 22, 2009Hughes looking, feeling good as RP
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...void for us." General manager Brian Cashman feels the same way. With 37-year-old Andy Pettitte on a year-to-year basis, Hughes is next in line to join the rotation. But...
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