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Ken Davidoff's baseball insider

Yankees, Mets, trade rumors, free agents, off-the-wall predictions and other MLB musings.

The early arbitration offers, John Henry and Tommy Henrich

Well, I goofed on the Yankees likely offering Andy Pettitte arbitration - they didn't, just as they didn't offer it to anyone else (Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui, Jose Molina or  Xavier Nady), as Joel Sherman accurately reported this morning - because I misunderstood a nuance of the process.

I thought that, if Pettitte were to actually accept arbitration, his hearing would...

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