{"id":2232202,"date":"2026-01-12T21:40:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2232202"},"modified":"2026-01-12T21:40:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:40:02","slug":"royals-star-wants-to-wear-a-3-digit-number-on-his-uniform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-star-wants-to-wear-a-3-digit-number-on-his-uniform\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals&#8217; star wants to wear a 3-digit number on his uniform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals\/news\/royals-star-wants-wear-3-digit-number-uniform\/4bc39a0d7db89db07f03ea05?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Royals' star wants to wear a 3-digit number on his uniform;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Royals&#8217; star wants to wear a 3-digit number on his uniform<\/a> originally appeared on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Somewhere along the way, the uniform gods decided that the numbers on the back of a jersey top could be either one digit or two digits.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Why not three? That&#8217;s what <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kansas City Royals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kansas City Royals<\/a> star Vinnie Pasquantino wants to know.<\/p>\n<p>Pasquantino recently joined in on some social media banter about Alex Bregman wearing the No. 2 on his jersey because he was the second pick of his draft.<\/p>\n<p>The lefty slugger joked (or maybe was serious) that he wants to be number 319.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/boston-red-sox\/news\/red-sox-paying-manny-ramirez-same-salary-2026-dodgers-shohei-ohtani\/9feb5f58536757b3ee946c23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Red Sox are paying Manny Ramirez same 2026 salary as Dodgers are paying Shohei Ohtani;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Red Sox are paying Manny Ramirez same 2026 salary as Dodgers are paying Shohei Ohtani<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pasquantino was that 319th selection in the 2019 MLB Draft out of Old Dominion. That works out to be an 11th-round pick.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s the only player from that round to have accumulated at least 1.0 Win Above Replacement in the major leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Pasquantino has a really funny social media presence, which has to be fun for his fans.<\/p>\n<p>And hey, maybe one of those Royals fans should start a petition. Or at least start selling some self-created Kansas City jerseys with the number 319 on the back. Pasquantino has earned that.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading\">More MLB news:<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.sports.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royals&#8217; star wants to wear a 3-digit number on his uniform originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Somewhere along the way, the uniform gods decided that the numbers on the back of a jersey top could be either one digit or two digits. 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