NEW YORK _ Adam Ottavino will be a big zero this season for the Yankees.
Or, to be more specific, he'll wear it.
In making the reliever's three-year contract official Thursday, the Yankees announced the 33-year-old Brooklyn native will wear No. 0, the first player in franchise history to do so.
The 33-year-old right-hander, who went 6-4 with a 2.43 ERA in 75 appearances last season with the Rockies and whose 112 strikeouts out of the bullpen ranked second in the NL and fourth in the majors, agreed to a three-year $27 million deal last week.
Ottavino, who grew up a Yankees fan and still lives in New York, joins an already powerful bullpen that includes Aroldis Chapman, Dellin Betances, Chad Green, Jonathan Holder and Zach Britton. The lefty Britton, a trade deadline acquisition last season, signed to a three-year $39 million deal, with a club option for fourth year that could bump the total to $53 million, earlier this month.
