Yesterday, the Yankees' new hitting coach, Alan Cockrell, revealed that Brett Gardner played through a wrist injury for most of the season. Gardner got off to a blazing hot start in April and put together one of the best first half performance's of his career. He was even selected to be a member of the All-Star team. However, his numbers took a huge nose dive in the second half of the season. Could the wrist injury be to blame for his poor second half?
According to Cockrell, Gardner's wrist injury occurred early in the season after he was hit by a pitch.