Joe Girardi would like Andy Pettitte to return

In conversation today on Yankee radio, Suzyn Waldman said Joe Girardi has told Andy Pettitte he wants him back next year-another example of how radically the Yankee organization has changed since the 2007 off season.

• I'm pretty sure Joe Torre never publicly announced at the end of any season (even those in which he knew he'd be returning) to a player that he really wanted him back (it wouldn't have been the manager's call in those days),

and then conveyed this action to the general public, as was done today via Suzyn in Joe Girardi's case. It didn't sound like a statement made by Girardi in passing, but something more emphatic. Suzyn wouldn't have remarked on it in the former case.

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