The New York Yankees are 42-19 on the 2018 campaign and it’s time to celebrate just one of the outstanding elements of the team, the outfield defense, that has helped them to get there.
The Yankees outfield, left fielder Brett Gardner, center fielder Aaron Hicks and right fielders Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton currently lead the American League with 22 Defensive Runs Saved (DRS) and Gardner has an astonishing 14 of them.
If you are not familiar with DRS, Fangraphs says that it “tells you how many runs better or worse that player has been relative to the average player at his position.