2009 vs. 2008 Yankees by Position

A lot has been made about the Yankees improving at just about every position in 2009, something that is very unlikely to happen. I thought it would be interesting to look at the differences in terms of positional splits rather than by individual players to see what it looks like, so here it is. Year Pos PA AVG/OBP/SLG wOBA BR Diff 2008 1B 674 .246/.349/.460 .344 93 2009 1B 748 .292/.386/.566 .394 136 43 2008 2B 661 .265/.299/.404 .298 70 2009 2B 693 .317/.348/.512 .362 108 37 2008 3B 696 .283/.364/.511 .374 112 2009 3B 688 .271/.374/.461 .363 103 -10 2008 C 608 .230/.290/.335 .271 54 2009 C 660 .269/.330/.438 .328 85 31 2008 CF 676 .261/.320/.391 .315 78 2009 CF 663 .273/.338/.400 .324 77 -1 2008 DH 662 .282/.378/.461 .366 99 2009 DH 666 .271/.363/.495 .364 103 4 2008 LF 714 .284/.349/.427 .338 94 2009 LF 747 .276/.353/.486 .358 113 19 2008 RF 724 ...