Posted by Sabrina B. @gametimegirl

We often hear about veterans coming to new teams and asking younger players for their old jersey numbers.  Often there is payment involved.  The latest news comes from Pittsburgh, where new Pirates starter A.J. Burnett wanted to wear his lucky  number 34. Except Daniel McCutchen wears it.   Check out the deal they made after the jump…

Some players get a watch when a veteran who joins the team takes their jersey number. Daniel McCutchen got a college fund.

For his unborn daughter, due in May.

A.J. Burnett, who took McCutchen’s No. 34 jersey, will start a College America 529 plan for McCutchen’s daugher, McCutchen said. Not quite yet — the child has to be born first so she can get a Social Security number — but soon.

“When a veteran comes in and takes a number, some of the guys usually get something,” McCutchen said. “I know he has kids. He asked me what I wanted, I brought that up.

“Eighteen years from now, we’ll see what the market is.”

 

SOURCES:   at HARDBALLTALK &  BILL BRINK at BGPLUS