Paul O’Neill will finally have number retired by Yankees

TAMPA — The Yankees are lastly retiring Paul O’Neill’s quantity 21.

No Yankee has worn it since LaTroy Hawkins briefly did in 2008 – and confronted backlash.

O’Neill can be honored earlier than the Yankees recreation in opposition to the Blue Jays on August — you guessed it — twenty first. 

Paul O’Neill at Previous Timers’ Day in 2018

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Paul O’Neill celebrates Yankees profitable the 2000 World Sequence.

New York Submit

The retired proper fielder is the twenty third Yankees participant or supervisor to have his quantity retired, and the primary since Derek Jeter was honored in 2017.

O’Neill, who performed 9 seasons with the Yankees and gained 4 World Sequence titles in The Bronx, has had a plaque in Monument Park since 2014.

He stays concerned with the group, serving as an analyst for the YES Community.