 CeCe Sabatheia's Pitchin Foundation has been a staple in the community and most notably the Bronx since he joined the Yankees for the 2009 season. While the Yankees were in Oakland on their last road trip, Sabatheia distributed backpacks to children in his hometown of Vallejo, California and upon returning to New York, CeCe called on a few of his friends to do the same at a local elementary school. I definitely missed him. Him not being here was a little weird. Him not being here. We've been doing this for six years now here in the Bronx and so having DeeDee and Aaron was a good replacement because they were so happy to be here. You know, they have the same heart as CeCe does. They want to give back. They want to give back here in the Bronx is like their second home. So it was a good feeling, but I definitely missed my right hand. It's just awesome energy. You know, the kids always have that fire energy. You know, as soon as you walked in, you know, we got a really warm welcome. So it's just amazing to be here with all these kids and with the P.C.C. Foundation. When everything gets involved in an event like this, it's just fun to be a part of. I mean, the way they do it is so unique and I'm just happy to be a part of it. We started the backpack program just because CeCe's mom said, you know, one of the hardships was for her when CeCe was a kid was paying for school supplies. So that's how the backpack program started to date. We're at 45,000 backpacks that we've given out to elementary school kids. A couple of weeks ago, we were just at high school and we get to high school kids. And it's just amazing how we're touching so many lives. Every backpack that I put on a kid's back, I feel like I touched their lives. This kid said, this is like the best moment of my life. And I'm just like, like, this is an amazing feeling, you know, to be able to have kids say something like that to you is a real feeling. The kid actually said, oh, I'm going to the game, you know, and some of them are really excited to tell me to go into the game. Or, you know, but it's one of the best moments for the kids. You know, I always want to do this for the kids, too. We're here two weeks prior packing all these backpacks. We have a ton of volunteers that come in and support Team 52. But putting those backpacks on the kids' backs is the same feeling I get from the very first day we started the backpack program. They're so excited. I'm so excited for them. I feel like it's a good way to really kick off their school year. But I hope we can continue to do this for many, many more years. I mean, it's awesome, you know, we play baseball all year round and people don't get to see this side of us. So it's something really amazing to give back to community to see that. We really care for everybody around us. We started this year getting ambassadors because CeCe said, you know, I've done I've done everything that I want to do. But now I think as a veteran player, I want to show these younger guys like how to also give back outside. And today we had Aaron and DeeDee and it's just CeCe's way of being the veteran player off the field. It's really awesome to start away and see how they've been doing everything. That's how you learn from, you know. So that's how you want to start something like this, too, for the kids and even wherever you're from, they have to be able to see that we can appreciate that we do everything for them, too. So it's not about us, just about us. So we give back to the community and everywhere we go. So it's just something really great.