Intuitively speaking, if I were a pitcher facing the Yankees, I would have one simple plan for left-handed hitters: avoid the inside part of the plate at all costs. With the short porch in right field, trying to pitch them inside would be too dangerous, as they could easily deposit pitches into the right field bleachers. However, this intuition did not hold up in 2016. What should have been a major source of power for the Yankees was actually somewhat of a weakness for the Bronx Bombers.
According to Baseball Savant, lefties across the league saw 3.