Baseball’s Savior

The Yankees just shored up their rotation by signing Andy Pettitte to a one year, $16 million deal.  That’s a ton of money but Pettitte joins Randy Johnson, Chien-Ming Wang and Mike Mussina in what’s turning out to be a better starting rotation.  That fifth spot is in the air and while Carl Pavano keeps being mentioned, it sure would be nice if Roger Clemens came back to pin stripes to take that last spot in the rotation.  You’d have well over 9,000 career strikeouts between just Clemens and Johnson.

Pettitte had a solid season last year and almost set a career mark with 178 strikeouts (he struck out 180 in 2003).  Pettitte’s fourteen wins shy of 200 and assuming he stays healthy, he should have no problem reaching that mark in 2007 with the Yankees.  He also has a $16 million option for 2008.