Yankee Doodle Dandy: Petitte back to the Yankees for 1 year, 16 million

Andy Pettite is returning to where his career started. He's going to back to the Yankees for 1 year, 16 million after three seasons in Houston. Apparently, Houston offered Petitte 12 million for one year, but he wanted 14 million and the Astros didn't budge.

As you recall, Petitte only went to Houston after the Yankees didn't even make an offer for him to remain there. Concerns about his elbow arose, and he was let go, even as he won 21 games for them that year and was as "money" as you could get.

The Yankees swooped in with a 16 million dollar deal for the '07 season and Andy took it.

Does that open the door for a Roger return?

Um, Houston, we have a problem. Give credit to the Yankees -- a good move.

Link: http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20061208&content_id=1754838&vkey=news_nyy&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy

Who says you can't go home again?