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Andy Pettitte was among the last two of the 171 eligible players to declare for free agency yesterday.

If the New York Yankees bring back Andy Pettitte, if could determine what the Bombers do in the rest of free agency.

The baseball free-agent market opens Thursday night at midnight, but players will not have real estate agents on call for Friday morning.

NEW YORK a ' Unless he's told otherwise, Joba Chamberlain anticipates being in the Yankees' starting rotation in 2010.

If you surveyed 10 baseball executives who were walking the halls of the Hilton O'Hare this week, you would have received 10 different viewpoints of how the market for free-agent starting pitchers will shake out this off-season. Some see a class so weak beyond right-hander John Lackey that they believe only two other pitchers, Randy Wolf and Joel ...

Roy Halladay is not a free agent, but Blue Jays figure to listen to offers from Yankees and Red Sox.

"For this team, they never stopped fighting," said Girardi. "They got up and they got up.

This could very well be a possibility, but the question is, why? Why do the reigning World Series Champions need to add another ace toA their already proven and capable starting rotation? Sports Illustrated'sA Jon Heyman tweeted A that the Yankees planA on inquiring about Halladay.

B ack in December, right before Christmas, the Yankees agreed to an eight-year, $180 million contract with first-baseman Mark Teixeira, completing a two-week spending spree the likes of which had never been seen in professional sport.

Hundreds of thousands of people streamed into Lower Manhattan on Friday to help the Yankees celebrate their 27th World Series championship with a ticker-tape parade.

Cradling his infant son, Justin, in one arm, Chien-Ming Wang walked out of the home clubhouse at Yankee Stadium on Friday, unsure if he would return.

Friday 06 Nov 2009 Former Kane County Cougar A.J. Burnett is World Series Champion Friday, November 6, 2009 at 02:25AM MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com-GENEVA, IL A.J. Burnett, a Cougar from the 1998 squad, has become the most recent world champion with Kane County Cougars ties.

Angels pitcher John Lackey could be of interest to Yankees GM Brian Cashman for 2010.

Short hops, quick pops and backhand stops as the general managers meetings wrapped Wednesday: When the Angels acquired Scott Kazmir last summer, most people assumed that he'd wind up being the replacement for John Lackey .

The New York Yankees are back on top of the baseball world, celebrating their record 27th championship.

The greatest franchise in American sports history is again the champion of baseball.

A little more than two years ago, Joba Chamberlain was a minor-league starting pitcher nearing his innings limit when Yankees general manager Brian Cashman made the decision to temporarily move Chamberlain's powerful right arm to the bullpen.

On the night of Nov. 1, 2001, I was sitting alone in the second-floor lounge of Shaw Hall on the campus of Syracuse University, having been banished there after cheering too loudly in the room of two Red Sox fans following Scott Brosius' game-tying two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth.

Hard to believe that six months ago, because of the Yankees' poor start, Joe Girardi's job was considered to be in jeopardy.

After an off day, the Yankees will try to close out the Angels with a Game 5 win in the American League Championship Series tonight at Angel Stadium.