Andy Pettitte to Be Inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame

Former New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte will be inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame on February 2nd in Waco, Texas.

Over the course of his 18-year career, 15 of which were with the New York Yankees, ‘Dandy Andy’ posted a 256-153 record with a career 3.85 ERA.

Andy Pettitte is also the winningest pitcher in post-season history, appearing in eight different World Series’, earning five World Series Rings and posting a playoff record of 19-11 with a 3.81 ERA. His 19 post-season wins are the most of any pitcher in the game, and he’s the only pitcher in big league history with six postseason series-clinching victories, including 2009 when he pitched and won all three series-clinching games in route to the Yankees last World Series Title.

He was a key member of the 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2009 World Series winning New York Yankees, and he also pitched the Houston Astros all the way to the World Series in 2005, where they were defeated by the Chicago White Sox.

Despite leaving the Yankees for three seasons to pitch for the Houston Astros in his native Texas, the southpaw is still the Yankees all-time leader in strikeouts with 2,020, and is ranked third on the Yankees in all-time wins (219) behind Red Ruffing (231) and Whitey Ford (236). If he never left the Yankees you could make the case that Pettitte would hold the record for all-time wins in franchise history, and he certainly might have had shot at 300 wins – a feat accomplished by just 24 other pitchers in baseball history.

Pettitte, a three-time All Star, was also named the 2001 ALCS MVP and was nominated for the Cy Young Award five different times throughout his career. Though he never won a Cy Young, the closest he came was in 1996 when he finished as the runner up in votes to Pat Hentgen, who was 20-10 with a 3.22 ERA as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays.

Andrew Eugene Pettitte will join fellow baseball players Jeff Bagwell, Lance Berkman, Ivan Rodriguez and Nolan Ryan in the Texas Sports Hall of Fame.

Congrats Andy!