Andy Pettitte

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Andy Pettitte
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Pitcher
Born: June 15, 1972
Baton Rouge , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
Strikes: Left Throws: Left
Debut in Major League Baseball
April 29,  1995  with the  New York Yankees
Last MLB assignment
September 28,  2013  in the  New York Yankees
MLB statistics
(until end of career)
Win-loss    256-153
Earned Run Average    3.85
Strikeouts    2,448
Teams

Awards

  • 3 × All-Star member (1996, 2001, 2010)
  • 5 × World Series Champion (1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2009)
  • ALCS MVP (2001)
  • 1 × Warren Spahn Award (2003)
  • 6 postseason series clinching wins (MLB postseason record)
  • 19 career postseason wins (MLB postseason record)

Andrew Eugene Pettitte (born June 15, 1972 in Baton Rouge , Louisiana ) is a retired American major league baseball pitcher . Most recently he played on the New York Yankees team .

In his major league career he played for the Yankees from 1995 to 2003. He then signed with the Houston Astros and played there from 2004 to 2006. In 2007, he moved back to the New York Yankees. He won five league titles with the Yankees and is the all-time leader of major league baseball in postseason wins, at 18.

Including 2009, Pettitte is ninth among the active major league players in the win-loss percentage (.629) category , fourth in the wins (229) and seventh in the strikeouts (2150). He is also one of only three active players with at least 200 wins and 2000 strikeouts and a winning percentage over .600. The other two are Randy Johnson and Pedro Martínez . In addition to Pettitte (2010), only Wei-Yin Chen (2012), Jon Lester (2007), Eric Milton (2002) and Virgil Trucks (1945) managed a post-season game over 50 days after winning a regular season Score game. Trucks missed the 1944 season due to his involvement in World War II and only achieved his post-season victory over two years later in the 1945 World Series for the Detroit Tigers against the Chicago Cubs to lead them 1-0.

Family and early career

Pettitte is of Italian and French descent, the youngest child of Tommy and JoAnn Pettitte. He attended Deer Park High School in Deer Park ( Texas ). With Pettitte, the school was one victory away from the state title, but ultimately failed to win.

At high school he met his future wife, Laura. They have four children together. In the 1990 MLB Draft, he was elected in the 22nd round by the Yankees. However, he decided to attend San Jacinto College North in Houston, Texas, where he won eight of his ten decisions.

On May 25, 1991, he signed with the Yankees as a pick in the amateur draft.

Professional baseball career

Minor Leagues

In his minor league career, Pettitte had 51 wins and 22 losses, with a 2.39 ERA from 113 starts. He never had a season with more losses than wins. In the Rookie League he had a 0.98 ERA.

Major Leagues

New York Yankees (1995 to 2003)

Andy Pettitte made his major league debut on April 29, 1995 with the New York Yankees. In 1996 he made it into the American League All-Star team and came second behind Pat Hentgen in the American League's Cy Young Award . He led the league in wins (21), was third in the win-loss percentage (.724) and was eighth in the AL at ERA (3.87). The Yankees won the 1996 World Series title . Pettitte had a 1-1 win-loss record in the six-game series. In Game 1, his pitches were hit hard early on and he couldn't get past the third inning. In Game 5 he pitched better, won the duel against John Smoltz and the Yankees won the game 1-0. The next year, Pettitte led the league in starts (35), pick-offs (14) and initiated double plays (36), was third in the league in pitched innings (240.3; a career high), fourth at ERA (2.88), wins ( 18) and WL pct. (.720), sixth in Complete Games (4), eighth in strikeouts (166), and tenth in walks / 9 pitched innings (2.43). In 1998 he was seventh in the league in Complete Games (5; career high performance) and eighth in Wins (16). That season he won his second World Series title with the Yankees and won his only start in the four-game series. In 1999 he won his third World Series title .

The Yankees' success continued in 2000. New York won the American League East title by four games. Pettitte was third in the American League in Wins (19), sixth in WL pct. (.679) and seventh in Complete games (3). He ended the season with his fourth World Series title . In 2001 he was elected to the All-Star Team for the second time. He was also named the ALCS MVP after winning Game 1 and Game 5 against the Seattle Mariners . He was third in the AL in Strikeouts / 9 IP (7.78; career top performance), eighth in Games started (33) and ninth in Walks / 9 IP (2.16).

Houston Astros (2004 to 2006)

Nolan Ryan and Andy Pettitte

After the 2003 season, Pettitte left the Yankees and signed a three-year contract with the Houston Astros . In his three years in Houston , he made $ 31.5 million. He changed his jersey number to number 21 in honor of Roger Clemens , who previously wore the number in Boston and Toronto. In 2004, his season, in which the opponents had a .226 batting average against him, was cut short because of elbow surgery.

2005 found Pettitte back to old form and helped the Astros to the first World Series appearance in the club's history. His 2.39 ERA that year was a career high and the second best in the National League , behind teammate Roger Clemens . He was also second in the league in Walks / 9 IP (1.66) and LOB (Runners L eft O n B ase) (79.7%; career best), third in Sacrifice Hits (15), fifth in Wins (17) and eighth in WL pct. (.654). He kept left hitting opponents at a .200 batting average and had a career high of 4.17 K / BB (strikeout / walk) ratio.

In 2006 Pettitte was 14-13 with a 4.20 ERA, the Astros missed the playoffs. He led the NL in starts (35), was seventh in pick-offs (4), eighth in initiated double plays (26) and tenth in strikeouts (178) and batters faced (929). He kept opponents at a .229 batting average with two outs in the inning and runners in scoring position.

New York Yankees (2007 to 2013)

Pettitte at Spring Training 2007.
Pettitte pitches at Shea Stadium in 2007

After the 2006 season, Pettitte left the Astros and signed a one-year $ 16 million deal with the New York Yankees. The deal included a player option that allowed Andy Pettitte to return to New York in 2008 for $ 16 million. Pettitte changed the jersey number from the number 21 he wore in Houston back to the number 46 he wore during his early days with the Yankees. On January 11, 2007, his return to the Yankees was announced at a press conference at Yankee Stadium .

After Pettitte, his former Houston Astros teammate Roger Clemens returned to the Yankees. Both players left the Yankees after the 2003 season to play for the Astros. In May 2007, Clemens also signed with the Yankees and returned to the Yankees' starting rotation in June. Once again, Clemens and Pettitte pitched for the same team. Pettitte won the 200th game of his career on September 19, 2007.

In the 2007 season he led the American League in starts (34), was seventh in batters faced (916) and was pitched ninth in innings (215.3). He ended the regular season with a 15-9 win-loss record. He also had the fifth lowest home run / 9-innings pitched rate in the AL (0.67).

On November 5, 2007, he decided not to withdraw the option for 2008 and became a free agent. On December 1, 2007, Pettitte was offered an arbitration award on the contract, and if he did not renew, the Yankees would receive draft picks. On December 3, Pettitte announced that he would pitch for the Yankees in 2008 as well. On December 7, 2007, Pettitte accepted the arbitration. He signed a one-year contract for US $ 16 million on December 12, 2007. After his name appeared in the Mitchell Report , Pettitte admitted a few days later that he had doped growth hormone ( HGH ) in 2002 .

On September 21, 2008 Andy Pettitte was the last starting pitcher of the Yankees in the old Yankee Stadium. The Yankees have been playing in the new Yankee Stadium since the 2009 season . In that last game at the old stadium, he managed the 2000th strikeout of his career in the second inning. The strikeout was against the Baltimore Orioles catcher , Ramón Hernández . Pettitte ended up winning the game, a 7-3 win. He pitched five innings. Pettitte led the Yankees pitched innings in the 2008 season (204). In his 14 seasons, Pettitte made an average of 158 strikeouts per season, a figure he did in 2008.

In 2009, the Yankees offered Pettitte a $ 10.5 million one-year deal, but Pettitte turned down the offer because he and his agent Randy Hendricks thought the earnings were too far below the $ 16 million he made the previous year would have. On Monday, January 26, 2009, Pettitte signed a one-year contract for $ 5.5 million with additional possible bonus payments. With the bonus payments, Pettitte came to roughly the US $ 10.5 million offered at the beginning. He started the 2009 season as the No. 4 Yankees starter, behind CC Sabathia , AJ Burnett and Chien-Ming Wang , followed by Joba Chamberlain on the fifth spot of the rotation.

On August 31, 2009, Pettitte held a perfect game for 6 1/3 innings. Then 3rd baseman Jerry Hairston Jr. made a mistake on a light ground ball. The next batter ( Nick Markakis ), who would not have hit this inning without this mistake, made a basehit and ended the no-hitter . On October 11, 2009 Andy Pettitte was the winning pitcher in Game 3 of the American League Division Series (ALDS), in which the Yankees won 4-1 and thus the best-of-five series against the Minnesota Twins 3-0 for themselves decided and moved into the American League Championship Series (ALCS).

On October 25, 2009, Pettitte was the winning pitcher when the Yankees defeated the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in Game 6 of the ALCS, moving into the World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies . This win brought the number of series clinching wins in his career to five, breaking the record he had previously held with Roger Clemens , Catfish Hunter and Dave Stewart . On October 31, 2009, in Game 3 of the World Series, Pettitte hit a single into center field. With this hit Nick Swisher made a run and this hit was Andy Pettitte's first World Series base hit. He was also the winning pitcher in that game. On November 4, 2009, Pettitte pitched Game 6 of the 2009 World Series with only a three-day break since his last start. Experts were critical of the decision to let the 37-year-old pitch after a short break, but Pettitte was the winning pitcher again and the Yankees defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 7-3. He expanded his record for series clinching wins to six and also increased his MLB record for most postseason wins, to now 18. He became the first pitcher in the history of Major League Baseball, the three series clinching -Playoff games started and won in one season. On top of that, on September 27, 2009, in the game against the Boston Red Sox , Pettitte was the winning pitcher in the division clinching game. Andy Pettitte became a free agent on November 19, 2009 after his contract expired. He signed another one-year contract with the Yankees on December 9, 2009, this time for $ 11.75 million.

On September 21, 2013, Pettitte announced that he would like to end his professional career at the end of the season because he had exhausted himself physically and mentally and now it was exactly the right time.

Web links

Commons : Andy Pettitte  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Former Gators Pettitte And Clemens Come Home . In: Gators Baseball History . San Jacinto College. Archived from the original on April 7, 2008. Retrieved December 11, 2006.
  2. ^ Tyler Kepner: Yankees Lose Part of Their Core As Pettitte Signs With Houston . The New York Times . December 12, 2003. Retrieved October 14, 2009.
  3. Major League Leaderboards >> 2005 >> Pitchers >> Advanced Statistics | FanGraphs Baseball
  4. ^ Andy Pettitte Stats and Graphs - New York Yankees | FanGraphs
  5. Andy Pettitte Declines his 2008 option
  6. ^ Andy Pettitte Will Pitch in 2008
  7. ^ Transactions: 2007 , New York Yankees
  8. Yankees' Pettitte says he used HGH ( English ) MLB Advanced Media, LP. December 15, 2007. Retrieved May 13, 2010.
  9. Chuck, Bill. 100 random things about the Red Sox, Rays, and Yankees , The Boston Globe . Published April 2, 2009. Retrieved May 2, 2009.
  10. Pettitte holding onto his pinstripes
  11. 2009 World Series: AJ Burnett falls woefully short on short rest - MLB Playoffs - ESPN
  12. 2009 World Series: New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi pushing it with a three-man rotation - MLB Playoffs - ESPN
  13. {{web archive | text = archive link | url = http: //www.newsday.com/columnists/wallace-matthews/matthews-pettitte-looks-iffy-on-three-days-rest-1.1564479 | wayback = 20091106105133 | archive -bot = 2018-03-29 22:20:15 InternetArchiveBot}} (link not available)
  14. Pettitte files to become free agent
  15. ^ Yankees re-sign Pettitte to one-year deal
  16. Marco Heibel: Pitcher Andy Pettitte resigns. Spox.com, September 21, 2013, accessed July 3, 2014 (German).
  17. Pettitte ends his career. Baseball Insider, accessed on July 3, 2014 (German).