Brett Gardner Batting Statistics and History

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Brett Gardner

Brett M. Gardner

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: August 24, 1983 in Holly Hill, SC
High School: Holly Hill-Roberts HS (Holly Hill, NC)
School: College of Charleston (Charleston, SC)
Drafted by the New York Yankees in the 3rd round of the 2005 amateur draft.
Signed June 12, 2005. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 30, 2008 (Age 24)
Team: Yankees 2008-2013
2013 Contract Status: 2nd-Year Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$2.85M (13) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 4.072, Arb Eligible: 2014, Free Agent: 2015 [*], Agents: Pro Star Management, Inc. [*]
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Standard Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos	Awards
2005	21	NYY-min	A-	73	335	282	62	80	9	1	5	32	19	3	39	49	.284	.377	.376	.752		106	4	6	3	5	1		STI · NYPL
2006	22	NYY-min	A+,AA	118	529	449	87	134	16	8	0	35	58	12	70	90	.298	.395	.370	.764		166	2	4	2	4	1		TAM,TRE · FLOR,EL
2007	23	NYY-min	AA,AAA	99	448	384	80	108	18	8	1	26	39	7	54	75	.281	.369	.378	.747		145	5	2	4	4	0		TRE,SWB · EL,IL
2008	24	NYY-min	AAA	94	426	341	68	101	12	11	3	32	37	9	70	76	.296	.414	.422	.837		144	2	1	11	3	2		SWB · IL
2008	24	NYY	AL	42	141	127	18	29	5	2	0	16	13	1	8	30	.228	.283	.299	.582	53	38	0	2	3	1	0	87/D
2009	25	NYY-min	AAA	4	16	11	3	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	5	1	.091	.375	.091	.466		1	0	0	0	0	0		SWB · IL
2009	25	NYY	AL	108	284	248	48	67	6	6	3	23	26	5	26	40	.270	.345	.379	.724	87	94	3	3	6	1	0	8/D
2010	26	NYY	AL	150	569	477	97	132	20	7	5	47	47	9	79	101	.277	.383	.379	.762	105	181	6	5	5	3	1	*78/D
2011	27	NYY	AL	159	588	510	87	132	19	8	7	36	49	13	60	93	.259	.345	.369	.713	92	188	5	8	8	2	1	*78
2012	28	NYY-min	AAA,A	3	10	8	2	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	2	.500	.600	.750	1.350		6	0	0	0	0	0		SWB,CHS · IL,SALL
2012	28	NYY	AL	16	37	31	7	10	2	0	0	3	2	2	5	7	.323	.417	.387	.804	122	12	0	0	1	0	0	7
2013	29	NYY	AL	46	196	173	23	44	8	3	3	16	9	3	18	42	.254	.326	.387	.714	93	67	5	1	3	1	0	*8
6 Yrs				521	1815	1566	280	414	60	26	18	141	146	33	196	313	.264	.352	.370	.722	93	580	19	19	26	8	2
162 Game Avg.				162	564	487	87	129	19	8	6	44	45	10	61	97	.264	.352	.370	.722	93	180	6	6	8	2	1

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.2): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	RAA	WAA	Rrep	RAR	WAR	waaWL%	162WL%	oWAR	dWAR	oRAR	Salary	Pos
2008	24	NYY	AL	42	141	-9	3	1	12	-0	7	0.8	5	12	1.3	.517	.504	0.0	1.2	-0		87/D
2009	25	NYY	AL	108	284	-3	5	3	7	1	12	1.3	11	23	2.3	.511	.508	1.6	0.9	16	$414,000	8/D
2010	26	NYY	AL	150	569	8	8	3	35	-5	49	5.3	21	70	7.4	.535	.532	3.7	3.3	35	$452,500	*78/D
2011	27	NYY	AL	159	588	-9	5	2	23	-5	16	1.8	22	38	3.9	.511	.510	1.5	1.9	15	$529,500	*78
2012	28	NYY	AL	16	37	1	-1	0	1	-0	1	0.1	1	2	0.2	.507	.501	0.2	0.1	1	$2,800,000	7
2013	29	NYY	AL	46	196	-3	2	-0	2	1	2	0.3	7	9	0.9	.504	.501	0.7	0.4	7	$2,850,000	*8
6 Seasons				521	1815	-16	22	8	80	-8	86	9.5	68	154	16.1	.517	.509	7.6	7.8	74	$7,046,000

Advanced Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
2008	24	NYY	AL	141	103	13	3.4	108	.296	.228	.272	.283	.340	.299	.427	.582	.767	53	.331	-9.0	-0.9	.606	.228	.071	.0
2009	25	NYY	AL	284	196	37	5.0	112	.311	.270	.273	.345	.343	.379	.438	.724	.781	87	.497	-5.4	-0.5	.762	.298	.109	5.4
2010	26	NYY	AL	569	368	82	6.0	105	.340	.277	.267	.383	.336	.379	.418	.762	.754	105	.609	5.9	0.6	.842	.348	.103	9.0
2011	27	NYY	AL	588	406	73	4.8	104	.303	.259	.265	.345	.331	.369	.419	.713	.750	92	.519	-5.5	-0.5	.737	.298	.110	12.3
2012	28	NYY	AL	37	24	5	5.6	100	.417	.323	.258	.417	.323	.387	.416	.804	.739	122	.589	1.2	0.1	.739	.226	.065	.0
2013	29	NYY	AL	196	141	22	4.2	102	.318	.254	.258	.326	.325	.387	.418	.714	.744	93	.447	-1.9	-0.2	.672	.272	.133	4.5
6 Yrs				1815	1238	232	5.0	105	.319	.264	.267	.352	.334	.370	.422	.722	.757	93	.525	-14.6	-1.4	.754	.303	.106	32.0
162 Game Avg.				564	385	72	5.0	105	.319	.264	.267	.352	.334	.370	.422	.722	.757	93	.525	-14.6	-1.4	.754	.303	.106	10

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	SH	SF	IBB
2009	25	NYY	AL	ALDS	MIN	W	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0					0	0	0
2009	25	NYY	AL	ALCS	LAA	W	6	4	3	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	.667	.667	.667	1.333	2	1	0	0
2009	25	NYY	AL	WS	PHI	W	5	10	10	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
2010	26	NYY	AL	ALDS	MIN	W	3	12	10	1	2	0	1	1	0	1	3	.200	.250	.200	.450	2	0	1	0
2010	26	NYY	AL	ALCS	TEX	L	6	20	17	1	3	0	1	1	0	2	5	.176	.263	.176	.440	3	1	0	0
2011	27	NYY	AL	ALDS	DET	L	5	18	17	3	7	1	5	0	0	1	4	.412	.444	.471	.915	8	0	0	0
2012	28	NYY	AL	ALDS	BAL	W	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
2012	28	NYY	AL	ALCS	DET	L	3	8	8	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
4 Yrs (8 Series)							33	72	65	8	14	1	7	5	2	4	17	.215	.257	.231	.488	15	2	1	0
4 ALDS							13	30	27	4	9	1	6	2	0	2	7	.333	.367	.370	.737	10	0	1	0
3 ALCS							15	32	28	3	5	0	1	3	2	2	6	.179	.233	.179	.412	5	2	0	0
1 WS							5	10	10	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0

Ratio Batting*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GB/FB	GO/AO	IP%	LD%	HR/FB	IF/FB
2008	24	NYY	AL	141	0.0%	21.3%	5.7%	5.0%	24%	3.75	4.2		7.9	0.92	0.97	70%	17%	0.0%	14%
2009	25	NYY	AL	284	1.1%	14.1%	9.2%	5.3%	22%	1.54	6.2	82.7	10.8	1.00	1.32	73%	16%	3.5%	17%
2010	26	NYY	AL	569	0.9%	17.8%	13.9%	5.6%	24%	1.28	4.7	95.4	10.1	1.13	1.44	66%	18%	3.4%	15%
2011	27	NYY	AL	588	1.2%	15.8%	10.2%	5.8%	26%	1.55	5.5	72.9	14.2	1.18	1.23	70%	15%	5.1%	24%
2012	28	NYY	AL	37	0.0%	18.9%	13.5%	5.4%	20%	1.40	4.4		10.3	0.60	0.67	65%	36%	0.0%	7%
2013	29	NYY	AL	196	1.5%	21.4%	9.2%	7.1%	32%	2.33	4.1	57.7	10.8	0.70	1.06	66%	18%	5.0%	19%
6 Yrs				1815	1.0%	17.3%	10.8%	5.7%	25%	1.60	5.0	87.0	11.1	1.04	1.24	68%	17%	3.7%	18%
MLB Averages					2.6%	18.6%	8.4%	7.7%	33%	2.20	4.8	34.4	8.1	0.81	1.08	69%	19%	7.6%	13%

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	BtRuns	BtWins	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	PHlev	AB
2008	24	NYY	AL	-9.0	-0.9	159	0.4	3.0	-2.5	1.10	-0.4	0.8	-1.4	-0.1	0.96	-6.7	0.05	1
2009	25	NYY	AL	-5.4	-0.5	324	0.7	5.4	-4.8	1.02	0.3	0.3	8.9	0.8	0.95	4.3	1.44	6
2010	26	NYY	AL	5.9	0.6	638	1.2	9.8	-8.6	.94	1.7	-0.4	17.1	1.6	0.99	15.3	0.98	3
2011	27	NYY	AL	-5.5	-0.5	661	-0.9	9.1	-10.0	.96	-0.4	-0.6	-8.2	-0.8	0.96	-4.2	1.50	1
2012	28	NYY	AL	1.2	0.1	42	0.0	0.7	-0.7	1.01	0.0	-0.0	2.4	0.2	0.93	0.3	0.00	2
2013	29	NYY	AL	-1.9	-0.2	213	0.4	3.7	-3.3	1.02	0.2	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.94	0.2	0.70	2
6 Yrs				-14.6	-1.4	2037	1.9	31.7	-29.8	.98	1.4	0.5	18.8	1.7	0.97	9.3	0.97	15

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	OOB	OOB1	OOB2	OOB3	OOBHm	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
2008	24	NYY	AL	1	46%	52	13	1	93%	12	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	3	0	3	0	0	4	67%	3	2	1	0	0	0	9	2	7
2009	25	NYY	AL	4	48%	115	26	5	84%	21	4	5	0	0	1	2	0	2	0	0	1	1	11	42%	20	9	10	1	0	1	15	10	4
2010	26	NYY	AL	7	44%	240	47	9	84%	43	8	3	1	1	0	5	2	4	1	0	3	0	19	53%	27	16	10	9	3	6	26	9	17
2011	27	NYY	AL	4	42%	240	49	13	79%	40	12	9	1	0	0	6	5	4	3	0	0	1	15	47%	34	22	12	6	1	5	22	9	12
2012	28	NYY	AL	0	47%	8	2	2	50%	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	83%	1	0	1	2	1	1	3	0	3
2013	29	NYY	AL	0	33%	65	9	3	75%	7	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	5	64%	8	4	4	2	0	2	4	1	3
6 Yrs				16	43%	720	146	33	82%	125	30	20	2	1	1	16	9	15	5	4	4	2	55	52%	93	53	38	20	5	15	79	31	46

Situational Hitting*

						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	DPopp	DPs	DP%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
2008	24	NYY	AL	141	82%	29	7	1	1	0	0	0	0.05	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	100%	23	0	0%	14	6	43%	82	16	20%	9	6	67%	8	4	50%	0
2009	25	NYY	AL	284	77%	67	16	1	6	2	0	0	1.44	3	0	5	3	0	1	2	1	9	6	67%	48	3	6%	20	9	45%	154	22	14%	9	6	67%	9	6	67%	0
2010	26	NYY	AL	569	70%	132	32	7	3	0	0	0	0.98	5	1	18	3	2	5	0	1	12	5	42%	103	6	6%	48	18	38%	385	47	12%	33	20	61%	18	12	67%	0
2011	27	NYY	AL	588	79%	132	44	13	1	0	0	0	1.50	7	0	20	7	0	4	3	0	16	8	50%	95	5	5%	52	16	31%	321	30	9%	26	11	42%	24	11	46%	0
2012	28	NYY	AL	37	76%	10	1	0	2	1	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	100%	9	0	0%	2	2	100%	23	3	13%	2	1	50%	1	1	100%	0
2013	29	NYY	AL	196	66%	44	9	4	2	0	0	0	0.70	3	0	2	1	2	3	0	0	3	3	100%	36	5	14%	21	6	29%	85	13	15%	6	3	50%	3	1	33%	0
6 Yrs				1815	75%	414	109	26	15	3	0	0	0.97	18	1	48	14	4	13	5	2	44	26	59%	314	19	6%	157	57	36%	1050	131	12%	85	47	55%	63	35	56%	0
MLB Averages					55%																			68%			11%			32%			14%			51%			56%

Pitch Summary -- Batting*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Pit	Pit/PA	Str	Str%	L/Str	S/Str	F/Str	I/Str	AS/Str	I/Bll	AS/Pit	Con	1stS	30%	30c	30s	20%	20c	20s	31%	31c	31s	L/SO	PAu	Pitu	Stru
2008	24	NYY	AL	141	547	3.88	361	66%	41%	6%	25%	28%	59%	0%	39%	91%	13%	4%	6	0	14%	20	7	5%	7	5	53%	0	0	0
2009	25	NYY	AL	284	1150	4.05	715	62%	45%	7%	19%	30%	55%	0%	34%	88%	11%	3%	9	0	13%	38	6	11%	31	16	30%	0	0	0
2010	26	NYY	AL	570	2625	4.61	1574	60%	48%	5%	23%	24%	52%	0%	31%	90%	7%	5%	31	0	19%	107	18	15%	84	16	43%	-1	0	0
2011	27	NYY	AL	590	2466	4.18	1500	61%	41%	6%	25%	28%	59%	0%	36%	90%	12%	6%	33	1	18%	106	43	12%	70	27	44%	-2	0	0
2012	28	NYY	AL	37	150	4.05	92	61%	41%	8%	24%	27%	59%	0%	36%	87%	16%	11%	4	0	14%	5	0	19%	7	2	43%	0	0	0
2013	29	NYY	AL	196	828	4.22	528	64%	33%	11%	31%	26%	67%	0%	43%	83%	19%	4%	7	0	12%	24	12	9%	17	7	21%	0	0	0
6 Yrs				1818	7766	4.27	4770	61%	43%	6%	24%	27%	57%	0%	35%	89%	11%	5%	90	1	17%	300	86	12%	216	73	40%	-3	0	0
MLB Averages						3.82		63%	28%	15%	27%	30%	72%	2%	45%	79%	27%	5%			14%			9%			25%

Cumulative Batting

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
2008	24	42	141	127	18	29	5	2	0	16	13	1	8	30	.228	.283	.299	.582	53	38	0	2	3	1	0
2009	25	150	425	375	66	96	11	8	3	39	39	6	34	70	.256	.325	.352	.677	76	132	3	5	9	2	0
2010	26	300	994	852	163	228	31	15	8	86	86	15	113	171	.268	.358	.367	.726	92	313	9	10	14	5	1
2011	27	459	1582	1362	250	360	50	23	15	122	135	28	173	264	.264	.353	.368	.721	92	501	14	18	22	7	2
2012	28	475	1619	1393	257	370	52	23	15	125	137	30	178	271	.266	.355	.368	.723	93	513	14	18	23	7	2
2013	29	521	1815	1566	280	414	60	26	18	141	146	33	196	313	.264	.352	.370	.722	93	580	19	19	26	8	2

Neutralized Batting

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All seasons are converted to 162-game seasons &
average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G) How this works

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
2008	24	42	140	126	17	28	5	2	0	15	13	8	30	.222	.277	.294	.571	10	42
2009	25	108	281	246	45	65	6	6	3	22	25	25	40	.264	.338	.374	.712	30	108
2010	26	150	569	477	97	132	20	7	5	47	47	79	101	.277	.383	.379	.762	69	150
2011	27	159	588	510	87	132	19	8	7	36	49	60	93	.259	.345	.369	.713	63	159
2012	28	16	37	31	7	10	2	0	0	3	2	5	7	.323	.417	.387	.804	5	16
2013	29	46	197	174	24	45	8	3	3	17	9	18	42	.259	.330	.391	.721	23	46
6 Yrs		521	1812	1564	277	412	60	26	18	140	145	195	313	.263	.351	.370	.720	200	521
162 Game Avg.		162	563	486	86	128	19	8	6	44	45	61	97	.263	.351	.370	.720	62	521

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1916 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y 2010 AL 7.4 (5th)	WAR Position Players† s c a p y 2010 AL 7.4 (5th)	Defensive WAR† s c a p y 2010 AL 3.3 (1st) 2011 AL 1.9 (8th) Active 7.8 (30th)	On-Base% s c a p y 2010 AL .383 (8th)
Games Played s c a p y 2011 AL 159 (4th) 2013 AL 46 (5th)	Runs Scored s c a p y 2010 AL 97 (9th)	Triples s c a p y 2010 AL 7 (5th) 2011 AL 8 (4th) 2013 AL 3 (3rd)	Bases on Balls s c a p y 2010 AL 79 (10th)
Stolen Bases s c a p y 2010 AL 47 (3rd) 2011 AL 49 (1st) 2013 AL 9 (4th) Active 146 (28th)	Sacrifice Hits s c a p y 2013 AL 3 (3rd)	Caught Stealing s c a p y 2010 AL 9 (10th) 2011 AL 13 (3rd) 2013 AL 3 (5th)	SB % s c a p y 2009 AL 83.87 (9th) 2010 AL 83.93 (9th) Active 81.56 (18th) Career 81.56 (31st)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Black Ink	Batting - 2 (610), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray Ink	Batting - 16 (1166), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 8 (1338), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 8 (1819), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS	Left Field (148th), 15.1 career WAR/15.1 7yr-peak WAR/15.1 JAWS Average HOF LF (out of 19) = 64.9 career WAR/41.2 7yr-peak WAR/53.1 JAWS

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