Gardner and his defense:

• The Bubba Bluff
• Free Brett Gardner!
• On Damon, budgets and Gardner’s D
• So what does this mean for the defense?

And we said this a few times, too:

It turns out Gardner’s also a better defender than Curtis Granderson, who everyone has slotted into CF already. If Cashman has his druthers, I imagine Gardner will be manning CF and Granderson will be in LF. “

And again here:

We like Gardner. We’re OK with Gardner as we’re big believers in defense as well as recognizing we don’t need 20+ home runs out of the 1-9 batting slots.