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RWhitney014 said:Willis is still under club control and won't make more than 2 or 3 million next year. The problem is, A.J. will demand a Pavano-like deal. Sorry, but we can't pay him $10 million per. BTW, I know A.J.'s next-door neighbor, and he told her he expected to be a Yankee because he wants to be with Pavano again. They're best friends. So go figure. There's an off chance he'll be back, say 3-5%. Probably about 20% to the Orioles and 75% to the Yanks.
NY has been burned twice by getting young pitchers from the NL. (Vazquez and Pavano but Pavano hasn't been terrible). I think NY would be hard-pressed to go and spend big bucks on another young NL pitcher.
It is soooooooo much easier pitching in the NL. Making the jump to the AL is very big.
On the other hand guys like Pedro and Roger can go to the NL and look like 25 years old again!