The New York Yankees will retire former player  Paul O’Neill‘s No. 21 on August 21, the MLB franchise announced on Tuesday. This will make the 58-year-old the 23rd player or manager whose number was retired by the Yankees.

O’Neill played 17 seasons in the Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds and New York Yankees. He compiled 281 home runs, 1,269 runs batted in, 2,107 hits, and a lifetime batting average of .288. He is the only player to have played on the winning team in three perfect games. Before retiring in 2001, O’Neill had won four World Series titles with the Yankees. 

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Nicknamed “The Warrior” by the late owner George Steinbrenner, O’Neill hit .303 with 185 homers and 858 RBIs for the Yankees from 1993-2001. He was a four-time All-Star with the Yankees and won the 1994 AL batting title during a strike-shortened season.

A plaque for O’Neill in Yankee Stadium’s Monument Park was dedicated on August 9, 2014.

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He is among the broadcast analysts for the Yankees’ YES Network.

Paul O’Neill played in 235 consecutive games without making an error from July 1995 to May 1997. He was the first 38-year-old in Major League history to steal 20 bases and hit 20 home runs in the same season. 

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Other Yankees with retired numbers are: No. 1 (Billy Martin, 1986), No. 2 (Derek Jeter, 2017), No. 3 (Babe Ruth, 1948), No. 4 (Lou Gehrig, 1939), No. 5 (Joe DiMaggio, 1952), No. 6 (Joe Torre, 2014), No. 7 (Mickey Mantle, 1969), No. 8 (Yogi Berra and Bill Dickey, 1972), No. 9 (Roger Maris, 1984), No. 10 (Phil Rizzuto, 1985), No. 15 (Thurman Munson, 1979), No. 16 (Whitey Ford, 1974), No. 20 (Jorge Posada, 2015), No. 23 (Don Mattingly, 1997), No. 32 (Elston Howard, 1984), No. 37 (Casey Stengel, 1970), No. 42 (Mariano Rivera, 2013), No. 44 (Reggie Jackson, 1993), No. 46 (Andy Pettitte, 2015), No. 49 (Ron Guidry, 2003) and No. 51 (Bernie Williams, 2015).

With inputs from the Associated Press