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Pettitte returns to Yanks

Print | Comments () Posted by Nick Cafardo, Globe Staff December 3, 2007 09:27 AM

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NASHVILLE -- With agent Randy Hendricks indicating this morning that Andy Pettitte will pitch for the Yankees again in 2008, it suddenly makes the Yankees' position on Johan Santana a little bit stronger than yesterday.

While the Yankees are still in desperate need of a No. 1 starter, they can stick to their guns on their package for Santana. Hank Steinbrenner said he would not be used to drive up the price for Santana.

Steinbrenner told the New York Daily News Sunday night that the Yankees' offer of Phil Hughes, Melky Cabrera and another prospect was not going to change.

"We're not going to be used here," Steinbrenner said. "We feel we have made a very fair offer - the offer the Twins asked us to make. It's not going to change. If we don't get (Santana), we don't get him."

Steinbrenner, who said the deadline for a deal is today also said: "(GM) Brian (Cashman) has conveyed to them that the owner is getting very irritated," he said.

It may come down to whether the Twins feel Jacoby Ellsbury and a lesser package of Sox prospects is better than Phillip Hughes and Melky Cabrera.