Monday, October 15, 2007
Courant.com: Going With The Kids
The confusion at the top of the Yankees organization figures to be cleared up this week.
George Steinbrenner’s sons, Hal and Hank, will officially assume control of the Yankees’ day-to-day operations at the annual organizational pick-up-the-pieces meetings that begin Tuesday in Tampa, Fla., according to a New York Post report. However, team president Randy Levine told Newsday, “George is still in charge.”
Any transfer of power will profoundly affect the immediate future of the Yankees, with decisions to be made on manager Joe Torre and potential free agents Alex Rodriguez, Mariano Rivera and Jorge Posada.
Let’s hope the Tampa mafia doesn’t have the ears of Steinbrenners’ kids…
Also, buried in this Newsday article about Roger Clemens’s annual retirement square dance is some good news for Yankee fans.
While Clemens likely won’t be a Yankee next year, Andy Pettitte almost certainly will. Pettitte, one of the most honorable players in the game, intends to exercise his $16-million player option for 2008 even though he surely could get a long-term deal in the free-agent market.
Interestingly, Pettitte’s deadline to exercise the deadline is 10 days after the end of the World Series, just like the deadline for Alex Rodriguez’s opt-out. So 10 days after the end of the World Series figures to be a particularly tense day in the Yankees’ offices.
Bringing back Pettitte would make me feel a lot better about the Yankee rotation in 2008.
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