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NEW YORK - Joe Girardi and Brian Cashman stood a few feet from each other on the red carpet near the World Series trophy, wearing blue jeans and sports jackets without ties.

John Lackey could be a big addition to the New York Yankees' rotation in 2010. With free agency upon us, check out who the Mets and Yankees might have in their sights.

The Yankees' Andy Pettitte and the Mets' Fernando Tatis have become the final players to file for free agency this year.

Aroldis Chapman, playing in February for the Cuban national team, had been taken for a round of interviews with agent Edwin Mejia just last week.

Andy Pettitte was among the last two of the 171 eligible players to declare for free agency yesterday.

Free agency basically ends everything from the 2009 season and begins the 2010 season.

Andy Pettitte filed for free agency Thursday, the final day of the 15-day window following the World Series.

With Upper Deck's baseball products soon to be bereft of MLB team logos and trademarks, it's been natural to wonder what the company would come up with to attract collectors to its 2010 baseball line.

NEW YORK a ' Unless he's told otherwise, Joba Chamberlain anticipates being in the Yankees' starting rotation in 2010.

Brian Cashman is letting the free agent river run down River Ave. to his Yankee Stadium door.

New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman wasn't gloating about their World Series championship Monday at the annual general managers meetings.

From one October pitching legend to another: Job well done. Whitey Ford won't see Andy Pettitte anytime soon to deliver that message, but yesterday Ford told The Post he's extremely proud of the manner in which Pettitte performed this postseason as the winning pitcher in the ALDS, ALCS and World Series clinchers.

There's been nobody else do it except Andy and Whitey. Of course, "it" doesn't come along often.

Hideki Matsui's monster night at the plate was capped by the Yankees swarming the infield for a boisterous celebration of their unprecedented 27th World Series title, including the first for Alex Rodriguez.

This could very well be a possibility, but the question is, why? Why do the reigning World Series Champions need to add another ace toA their already proven and capable starting rotation? Sports Illustrated'sA Jon Heyman tweeted A that the Yankees planA on inquiring about Halladay.

Milwaukee general manager Doug Melvin caught reporters slightly off-guard at the GM meetings in Chicago this week when he observed that "no one has heard from" former Brewers right-hander Ben Sheets .

Click on any of the images below to launch a full gallery: 1 of 24 Pitcher Andy Pettitte won Game 6 for the Yankees, allowing only four hits in six innings.

CHICAGO - There was no Notre Dame T-shirt this time, no sunglasses hanging from the collar, but as Yankees general manager Brian Cashman walked out of the general managers' meetings on Wednesday, it was in much the same state as when he arrived.

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Hundreds of thousands of Yankees fans - many of them from North Jersey - lined Lower Manhattan Friday to cheer on the Bronx Bombers at a ticker tape parade celebrating their 27th World Series championship.