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Yankees want Pettitte back next season

Yankees want Pettitte back next season
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman wants pitcher Andy Pettitte to stay with the team for the 2009 season. The 36-year-old left-hander said near the end of the season that he’d likely want to remain with the Yankees, and he confirmed that decision Tuesday in an interview with KRIV television in Houston. “It’s great to hear,” Cashman said Wednesday at the general managers’ meetings. “Obviously, Andy is a guy you’d like to have back.

L.A. offers Manny 2nd-highest salary ever in MLB
Even if the Dodgers are unable to re-sign Manny Ramirez, no one will be able to accuse GM Ned Colletti of not trying.

Flip out: Baseball likely to eliminate coin flips
No more flip decisions. Rather than heads or tails, baseball general managers plan to recommend that sites for division and wild-card tiebreakers be decided by wins and losses. “The team that performed better against the other team I think is the one that deserves to have home-field advantage, not an arbitrary coin flip,” San Diego Padres general manager Kevin Towers said Thursday as the annual GMs meeting ended.