It’s safe to say Miguel Andujar bailed out the Yankees in 2018. When projected starting third baseman Brandon Drury went down with an injury to start the season, Andujar filled in and never look back.
Before we start advocating for the Yanks to begin shopping a valuable trade chip like Andujar, let’s evaluate our strengths and weaknesses. Our pitching needs the most improvement. However, our offense isn’t invincible. Injuries slowed us down in 2018, but we also relied on home runs and walks too often.
Our patience at the plate led to a very high on-base percentage, but walks don’t drive in runners on the basepaths (unless the bases were loaded).