Anthony Volpe gets new jersey number ahead of Yankees debut

The quantity 11 simply received extra fashionable once more at Yankee Stadium.

After sporting quantity 77 throughout a spring coaching wherein he received the Yankees’ beginning shortstop job, Anthony Volpe has settled on quantity 11 on the eve of constructing his MLB debut on Opening Day on Thursday, the workforce introduced.

Other than 0, which will probably be worn this season by Domingo German, 11 was the bottom Yankees quantity that was not retired.

Volpe would be the first to put on it since Brett Gardner used 11 from 2008-2021.

Earlier than touchdown on 11, Volpe positioned a name to Gardner, who gave the rookie his blessing to put on it, Gardner’s agent, Joe Bick, confirmed.

YES Community’s Jack Curry first reported the dialog between Volpe and Gardner.

Throughout his journey to the Yankees, Volpe wore a handful of various numbers – together with No. 2 within the Space-Code video games for Derek Jeter, his favourite participant rising up; No. 7 in highschool and many of the minor leagues, for Mickey Mantle, his grandfather’s favourite participant; and No. 77 in spring coaching, which was assigned to him by the workforce.

Mantle’s No. 7 is retired by the Yankees.

Different Yankees to beforehand put on No. 11 embody Lefty Gomez, Dwight Gooden, Garry Sheffield and Chuck Knoblauch, who used it by means of the 2001 season — the identical yr Volpe was born.