NEW YORK — Derek Jeter’s No. 2 is being retired, the last of the New York Yankees’ single digits.

The Yankees said Tuesday the number will be retired on May 14 before a Mother’s Day game against Houston, and a plaque in his honor will be unveiled in Monument Park during the ceremony.

Jeter’s number is the 21st retired by the team. He won five World Series titles and was a 14-time All-Star during a 20-season career that ended in 2014 and he is sixth in career hits with 3,465.

Jeter set Yankees records for hits, games (2,747), at-bats (11,195), doubles (544) and stolen bases (358).

New York previously retired No. 1 (Billy Martin, 1986), 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).

In addition, Jackie Robinson’s No. 42 was retired throughout the major leagues in 1997.

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METS: Manager Terry Collins said he’d like Tim Tebow to play in spring training games even though Tebow has a long ways to go in his transition to baseball.

Diamondbacks: Arizona named former starter Dan Haren as pitching strategist. Haren will work with the front office, major league staff and analytics.

Catcher Jeff Mathis and Arizona have finalized a $4 million, two-year contract.

CUBS: The value of a full postseason share on the World Series champions declined for the second straight year.

A full share on the Chicago Cubs following the team’s first title since 1908 was worth $368,872, the commissioner’s office said.

That is down from $370,069 for last year’s Kansas City Royals and a record $388,606 for the 2014 San Francisco Giants.

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Chicago split $27.6 million into 66 full shares, 8.7 partial shares and four cash awards.

The players’ pool was a record $76.6 million, topping last year’s $69.9 million.

SPINK AWARD: Claire Smith is the first woman to win the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for meritorious contributions to baseball writing and will be honored during the Hall of Fame’s induction weekend next July in Cooperstown, New York.

The 62-year-old Smith covered the New York Yankees for the Hartford Courant for five years starting in 1983 and was a columnist for The New York Times from 1991-98 and The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1998-2007. She currently is ESPN’s news editor of remote productions.

HALL OF FAME: The ballots of individual voters for baseball’s Hall of Fame will be released publicly starting with the election results announced in January 2018.

Voters, who have been members of the BBWAA for 10 consecutive years, have been free to announce their votes on their own, and about half have done so in recent years.

RAYS: All-Star catcher Wilson Ramos and Tampa Bay were closing in on a two-year contract.

Ramos, 29, hit .309 with a career-high 22 home runs and 80 RBI for Washington before tearing his right anterior cruciate ligament on Sept. 25.


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