The team announced Wednesday that Hall of Fame pitcher CC Sabathia’s No. 52 will enter Monument Park on Sept. 26, when the Yankees host the Baltimore Orioles during their final series of the 2026 regular season.
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Sabathia will become the 24th Yankee to have his number retired. Among that group, both Yogi Berra and Bill Dickey wore No. 8, so Sabathia’s number will be the 23rd the club has retired.
“From the first number that hung in my locker to 52 forever hanging in Monument Park — this HOF journey has come full circle,” Sabathia wrote in a post on X.
“To have my number retired by the New York Yankees this year is one of the greatest honors of my life. The LegaCCy continues.”
Sabathia, 45, was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame last year, along with outfielder Ichiro Suzuki and reliever Billy Wagner. Although the southpaw spent the first seven-plus seasons of his career in Cleveland, where he notably won the AL Cy Young Award in 2007, his plaque in Cooperstown features a Yankees cap.
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After lending a big hand to the Milwaukee Brewers in the second half of the 2008 season and guiding them back to the postseason for the first time since 1982, Sabathia signed a then-record-setting contract with the Yankees. He helped them win the World Series in 2009 and ultimately piled up 11 seasons in the Bronx before walking away from the game in 2019 following his 19th season.
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Sabathia is one of just 15 major-league pitchers to record at least 250 wins and 3,000 strikeouts. He’s a six-time All-Star and two-time MLB wins leader. He accomplished the latter in 2009 and 2010, stitching together 19 and 21 wins, respectively.
During the 2009 postseason, he went 3-1 with a 1.98 ERA over five starts. That year’s ALCS MVP, he recorded 32 strikeouts and just nine walks in the process, and the Yankees claimed their 27th World Series title, still their most recent.
