Andy Pettitte

INDIANAPOLIS -- Andy Pettitte is returning to the Yankees in 2010. The veteran left-hander agreed to a one-year, $11,750,000 deal with New York on Wednesday.

World Series hero Andy Pettitte has told the Yankees he wants to pitch in 2010.

The Yankees are expected to decline arbitration on free agents Andy Pettitte, Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui and Xavier Nady, SI.com has learned.

Mollycoddle (verb): To be overprotective and indulgent toward; to pamper. -- WordNet definition

NEW YORK -- The Yankees christened the first season in their new ballpark the same way they opened their old stadium in 1923: with a World Series championship.