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.

Gardner may not even be the [center]fielder. The Yankees are at least toying with putting Granderson (fourth most homers, 30, by an AL outfielder last season) in left and employing the superior defense of Gardner in center. 