2009 Yankees Season in Review: Brett Gardner

While we’ve apparently already kind of moved into off-season mode, I’m going to try and do a quick retrospective on the key players for the 2009 Yankees, which also should also help us think about what we should expect from them going forward where applicable. Since we’ve started talking about Brett Gardner in the prior thread, I’ll start off with him. Despite putting up respectable numbers in the minors, particularly in terms of OBP, there was a lot of concern about how Gardner’s game would translate in the majors. If you looked at the track record of players similar to Gardner(high OBP, low SLG, high K rate) it was a somewhat valid concern. So here’s a look at Gardner’s 2009 projections, pro-rated to what his actual PAs ended up being. brett gardner PA AB H 2B 3B HR SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG BR/650 wOBA -2 Std -1 Std +1 Std +2 Std % 2009 chone projection 284 252 65 11 4 1 19 5 31 59 .258 .341 .345 73 .305 .247 .276 .334 .364 98.3% 200...