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Clark Griffith, Kid Elberfeld, Willie Keeler, Hal Chase, Frank Chance, Roger Peckinpaugh, Babe Ruth, Everett Scott, Lou Gehrig, Thurman Munson, Graig Nettles, Willie Randolph, Ron Guidry, Don Mattingly and Derek Jeter. What do those names have in common? They were all captains of the New York Yankees at some point in their careers.
Their names come to prominence today because a recently-retired New York Yankees’ great threw two current members of the team as candidates to, some day, captain baseball’s most famous franchise.
CC Sabathia, the World Series-winning starting pitcher who retired this last season, expects either Aaron Judge or Gleyber Torres to be named captains at some point in the future.