New York Daily News | Wallace Matthews: New Yankee James Paxton sat down with the Daily News to discuss why he thinks he’s the right man for the job in New York. Paxton is leaning on his former teammate, Robinson Cano, as well as advice from his boyhood idol, Andy Pettitte, on how to best handle the media circus. As he describes the pressure to perform in New York, ”I feel like I can feed off that energy and it’s going to take me to another level, take me in a positive way.