When you go through the history of the New York Yankees and look through the list of WAR leaders for a full season, you find the usual suspects: Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Ron Guidry, Don Mattingly, Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter. No surprises there.
But dig deeper and you wouldn’t believe some of those who managed to lead the way for the Bombers for an entire campaign, regardless if they made the playoffs or not. We’d like to think at least a majority of these former Yankees who led the team in this category will surprise you.