Pettitte Was Close To Retirement

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He's pitching so well this season, it's hard to imagine Andy Pettitte was thinking of retiring this offseason. But Joe Torre says it wasn't just a bluff, and that the lefthander was serious going all the way back to last summer.

"I talked to Andy during the summer," Torre said after Pettitte went eight innings as the Yankees beat the Diamondbacks, 7-1, for their ninth win in a row. "I think the biggest part of it was it had become work for him. Not necessarily the physical part, but it just wasn't as much fun."

His ERA is 2.93, but Pettitte is only 4-4 because the Yankees haven't scored for him. They did yesterday.

Via Newsday

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