Brian Cashman may have provided the strongest piece of evidence to date that Andy Pettitte will not pitch in 2011 when he told reporters on Wednesday that Pettitte "is choosing at this stage to not start 2011," and then later clarified his statement, saying he used "a poor of choice of words" in that he meant to say "play" or "pitch" instead of "start," which was believed to mean the start of the season. "Right now, he's still saying, 'Don't count on me.' That's not something new, and it's all the information we have," Cashman said Wednesday, when he took time from a busy round of sessions during Major League Baseball's quarterly Owners Meetings to discuss the Yankees' biggest question mark for the coming season. "Andy's been very communicative [with me] on this issue. Right now, he's not playing. If he decides to play, it will be for us. He's a Yankee, from start to finish. I don't think he's determined whether he's officially finished, but is choosing at this stage to not start 2011. "If that ever changes, he will call us. I'm certainly not going to hound him or bother him."