{"id":145561,"date":"2026-02-26T01:57:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145561\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T01:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:57:31","slug":"yankees-retiring-cc-sabathias-number-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145561\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees retiring CC Sabathia’s number 52"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA \u2014 CC Sabathia will enter Yankee immortality later this season.<\/p>\n

The Hall of Fame left-hander will have his No. 52 retired by the Yankees and a plaque unveiled for him in Monument Park on Sept. 26, the team announced Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Sabathia, who was enshrined in Cooperstown<\/a> last summer, will become the 24th Yankees player or manager to have his number retired and the first since Paul O\u2019Neill in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"YankeesCC Sabathia salutes fans as he walks out to the field for introductions during Old Timers\u2019 Day before a game against the Colorado Rockies, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024, in Bronx, NY. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n

A key part of the Yankees\u2019 2009 World Series championship team, Sabathia spent 11 of his 19 years in the big leagues playing in The Bronx, pitching to a 3.81 ERA across 307 games. <\/p>\n

He recorded his 3,000th career strikeout as a Yankee and was also the ALCS MVP in 2009.<\/p>\n

\"CCCC Sabathia pitching during the 2009 World Series. Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n

A strong presence in the Yankees clubhouse, Sabathia was revered by his teammates and pitched with a bulldog mentality. <\/p>\n

He retired after the 2019 season, having thrown his last pitch in the ALCS when he walked off the mound with a dislocated shoulder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 CC Sabathia will enter Yankee immortality later this season. The Hall of Fame left-hander will have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[33324,128,2793,20,61046,9,24,321,63,319,129,131,130,6016],"class_list":{"0":"post-145561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-baseball-hall-of-fame","9":"tag-bronx","10":"tag-cc-sabathia","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-monument-park","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-yankees","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-the-bronx","19":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","20":"tag-the-bronx-news","21":"tag-yankee-stadium"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}