Monument Park adds three more

Hopefully in a year’s time, we will be able to unveil our ranking of all four major North American sports franchise and how they retire numbers or have their own Hall of Fame.  Basically it will be a ranking of post career accolades.  As you can imagine, the New York Yankees are a strong contender to top that list, and it looks like they are going to add another three retired numbers sometime next season. Andy Pettitte will have his number 46 retired by the organization.  Pettitte played fifteen of his eighteen seasons in Baseball in Yankee pinstripes and would accumulate a 219 and 127 record with 2,020 Strikeouts and a 51.6 bWAR.  As a Yankee, Pettitte was in the top five in American League Cy Young Voting three times and also was a three time All Star. Most importantly, Pettitte would help the New York Yankees win the World Series five times and would win the American League MVP Award in 2001.  Pettitte holds the record for the most post seasons wins (19), 18 of which he got as a Yankee. It should be noted that while Pettitte was caught using PEDs, his contrite and rapid apology immediately put him back in the good graces of Yankees and Baseball fans, and this could help him get into the Baseball Hall of Fame one day. Pettitte will be joined by longtime teammate, Bernie Williams, the Yankees Centerfielder for sixteen years.  Williams was a member of four World Series Championship, had five consecutive All Star appearances and would win the American League Batting Title in 1998.  Along with a Silver Slugger and four Gold Gloves, Williams would slap 2,336 Hits, 287 Home Runs, a .297/.381/.477 Slash Line and a 62.6 bWAR and had 22 post season Home Runs for the Yankees, along with the ALCS MVP in 1996. The trio will be rounded out by former six time All Star Catcher, Jorge Posada who was also a five time Silver Sligger.  Posada only played for New York and tabulated 1,664 Hits, 275 Home Runs, a .273/.374/.474 Slash Line and a  42.7 bWAR.  Like Williams, Posada also has four World Series Rings.  Along with Derek Jeter’s #2 which is expected to be formally retired, this marks the 21st, 22nd and 23rd numbers to be retired by the team. We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate the triumvirate of Andy Pettitte, Bernie Williams and Jorge Posada for what will become a permanent place at Monument Park.