The Core Four — including Derek Jeter in his first post-retirement visit — was on hand at Yankee Stadium Sunday night to officially send Bernie Williams into retirement. But to Andy Pettitte, the Yankees should have a Fab Five instead, with Williams a big part of it.
“Oh there’s no doubt about it (that he belongs in the group that includes the Core Four),” Pettitte said Sunday night before the Yankees retired Williams’ No. 51. “I mean, he just missed one, the 2009 (World Series) so I think, and again, I’m not sure, I think that whole Core Four was brought up after Bernie had left so I think that’s probably why it stuck.