Yankees rookie Clint Frazier chopped off his shock of curly red hair Friday after team honchos blasted it as shear “distraction.”

Frazier, who sometimes pulled his Carrot Top-style mop into a man-bun, was “asked” by team manager Joe Girardi to get rid of it, team sources said.

“I like my hair, but I love playing for this organization,” Frazier, 22, said of the Yankee’s strict policy forbidding long hair and beards. “It’s time to look like everybody else around here.”

A barber at the clubhouse at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, their spring training headquarters, lopped off the outfielder’s near-shoulder-length locks and shaved the sides into a short tidy cut.

So much of his poofy bright orange hair went down the drain, he now needs a smaller helmet on the diamond, he told Spanish language radio host Rickie Ricardo.

He added that his hair hasn’t been this short since “my parents made me cut it, probably in the seventh grade.”

Frazier joins the ranks of Johnny Damon, who was forced to snip his caveman locks and shave his beard when he joined the team from the Red Sox before the 2006 season.

Yankees players have been prohibited from wearing beards, long sideburns and hair below the collar since 1973, when George Steinbrenner bought the team and made the policy.

Manager Joe Girardi had a chat with Frazier about his hippie look before he agreed to clean up his appearance.

“It was becoming a distraction. I didn’t want it to be anymore,” Girardi said. “I asked him to [cut it]. I talked to him a little bit about it. He said, ‘OK, I’m gonna cut it.'”

He added, “He wants baseball to be the focus, not his hair.”