While Greg Bird and Luke Voit slug it out for the first base spot and Domingo German, Luis Cessa, Jonathan Loaisiga, and Gio Gonzalez vie for two spots in the rotation, Brett Gardner has had a surprisingly successful spring training and here’s why we should celebrate.
New York Yankees: Brett Gardner is stepping on the gas
First of all, the numbers – Gardner is hitting .423/469/.769 with a 1.238 OPS with 3 homers and 6 RBIs on the spring. Granted, it is spring training, but these numbers are gaudy compared to the numbers Gardner put up in ’18 when he hit .