My recommendation on Lohse was to have him for insurance; and, if you didn’t need him, then you could have stuck him in the pen as a long man – or traded him at the end of Spring Training.

You really think the Yankees would bring in Pettitte, as insurance, and then stick him in the pen or trade him if he’s not needed? Really?

But, if I’m New York, I would not allow Andy to play that “I’m trying to decide if I want to retire” game this off-season…Because, if he’s on the fence about it, the Yankees need to move on and get someone else.
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Don’t agree. Why does his timing matter? If Hank Steinbrenner is to be believed, the Yanks will make a full-out push for CC Sabathia and Ben Sheets. Regardless of whether or not I think that’s an intelligent course of action, the team’s decision to pursue those guys doesn’t hing on Pettitte’s decision to come back.

Frankly, considering the fact that you wanted the team to sign Kyle Lohse last year, I don’t see why you’d be opposed to the Yanks potentially treating Pettitte as that 6th/7th starter (after they get Sabathia/Sheets, and to go with Wang, Hughes, and whoever else).