Anthony Volpe has the No. 11 thanks, in part, to the efforts of Anthony Rizzo and Aaron Judge.
It was the Yankee slugger and former first baseman who thought the number suited the young infielder when he first made the roster out of spring training in 2023, he revealed in the first episode of the new season of “The Story of My Number,” set to air on May 14 on YES Network within The Gotham Sports App.
“When I got called up out of spring training, my head was all over the place, the last thing I was thinking of was what number I was going to be,” Volpe says in the episode, which The Post got a sneak peek of. “Riz and Judgey pulled me over and they were like, ‘Where’s your head at? What are you thinking?’”
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