The Yankees have a problem.
It has nothing to do with sitting out the World Series for the last 13 years. This is an aesthetic problem, something that one of the few teams in professional sports that doesn’t wear alternate jerseys has dodged for most of its existence.
The problem is jersey number-related. Most people know that the Yankees have an absurd 22 retired numbers. But as fans gaze out onto the field and see digits more regularly associated with speeding tickets than baseball players, what they might not know is that the Yankees have plenty of perfectly fine numbers available. They’re just choosing to not give them out.
