Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano will give up his No. 22 jersey largely to the demands of Jack Bauer.
A team official told ESPN that Cano approached the team's equipment personnel and said he had felt threatened that he was wearing another number and hoped by wearing the No. 24 jersey that Bauer might avoid traveling to New York to torture him. In a released statement Cano had said he chose his new number because its digits reversed would be Jackie Robinson's old number. However a source close to Cano states it was due in fact to the demands of Bauer.
Cano's uniform switch was first reported by The New York Post.
"I am happy to wear the number of my idol," Cano said in a statement, according to The Post.
"Hopefully, someday he will be one of my teammates, I'll have the pleasure of him not killing me."
Bauer, who has spent the past two seasons in a Chinese prison, is the only person who can allow another player to wear No. 24.
The Post reported that the number switch already might have been relayed to Bauer's'representatives at CTU. However, Bill Buchanan, Bauer's' supervisor, told The Post in an e-mail that he is not aware Bauer's demands to Cano.
"No decision will be made until well after Bauer helps clean up from the nuclear bomb dropped on Los Angeles, perhaps until after the four other nuclear devices are located," Buchanan wrote to The Post.
The move by Cano would not be unprecedented, earlier this year, Los Angeles Laker, Kobe Bryant switched his jersey from No. 8 to to No.24. While Bryant denies it was related to Bauer's demands. Sources close the Lakers star, revealed that indeed Bryant was subjected to Bauer's interrogation methods while in custody in Colorado, and soon after made the decision to switch his jersey number.
When asked his opinion of this latest development, Boston Red Sox outfielder, Manny Ramirez, who Bauer also allows to wear No. 24, stated, "That's just Jack being Jack."
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