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
Team: Yankees 2008-2012
2012 Contract Status: 1st-Year Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$2.8M (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 3.072, Arb Eligible: 2013, Free Agent: 2015 [*],
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rdrs	Rtot/yr	Rdrs/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG
2008	NYY	AL	24	OF	38	32	30	306.0	83	78	5	0	0	1.000	7	12	29	47	2.44	2.18	.986	2.31	2.28
2008	NYY	AL	24	CF	22	17	16	160.2	57	53	4	0	0	1.000	5	12	39	90	3.19	2.59	.989	2.71	2.69
2008	NYY	AL	24	LF	17	15	14	145.1	26	25	1	0	0	1.000	2	0	17	0	1.61	1.53	.984	2.05	2.03
2008	NYY	AL	24	DH	1	0
2009	NYY	AL	25	CF	99	63	58	628.2	191	186	3	2	2	.990	1	7	2	13	2.71	1.91	.992	2.73	2.70
2009	NYY	AL	25	OF	99	63	58	628.2	191	186	3	2	2	.990	1	7	2	13	2.71	1.91	.987	2.33	2.30
2009	NYY	AL	25	DH	3	0
2010	NYY	AL	26	OF	146	134	107	1211.0	300	287	12	1	2	.997	19	35	19	34	2.22	2.05	.986	2.30	2.28
2010	NYY	AL	26	LF	123	96	84	906.0	210	200	9	1	1	.995	21	26	27	34	2.08	1.70	.983	2.07	2.05
2010	NYY	AL	26	CF	44	38	23	305.0	90	87	3	0	1	1.000	-2	9	-6	35	2.66	2.05	.990	2.73	2.71
2010	NYY	AL	26	DH	2	0
2011	NYY	AL	27	OF	156	134	118	1251.0	334	322	7	5	3	.985	34	23	33	22	2.37	2.11	.986	2.28	2.26
2011	NYY	AL	27	LF	149	124	112	1158.2	305	294	7	4	3	.987	31	23	33	24	2.34	2.02	.982	2.13	2.11
2011	NYY	AL	27	CF	18	10	6	92.1	29	28	0	1	0	.966	3	0	38	0	2.73	1.56	.990	2.61	2.59
2012	NYY	AL	28	LF	9	8	8	78.1	14	13	1	0	0	1.000	-0	0	-2	0	1.61	1.56	.984	1.94	1.94
2012	NYY	AL	28	OF	9	8	8	78.1	14	13	1	0	0	1.000	-0	0	-2	0	1.61	1.56	.988	2.14	2.14
	5 Seasons			OF	448	371	321	3475.0	922	886	28	8	7	.991	62	77	21	26	2.37	2.04	.986	2.30	2.27
	4 Seasons			LF	298	243	218	2288.1	555	532	18	5	4	.991	54	49	28	25	2.16	1.85	.983	2.09	2.08
	4 Seasons			CF	183	128	103	1186.2	367	354	10	3	3	.992	7	28	8	28	2.76	1.99	.991	2.72	2.69
	5 Seasons			TOT	448	371	321	3475.0	922	886	28	8	7	.991	62	154	21	53	2.37	2.04	.986	2.30	2.27

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rof	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rof
2008	NYY	AL	24	CF	5	39	3	1	2	2	12	90	4	4
2008	NYY	AL	24	LF	2	17	1	0	1	1	0	0	-1	1
2009	NYY	AL	25	CF	1	2	-0	1	-1	1	7	13	4	2
2010	NYY	AL	26	LF	21	27	17	9	7	4	26	34	15	7
2010	NYY	AL	26	CF	-2	-6	-2	1	-3	0	9	35	9	-1
2011	NYY	AL	27	LF	31	33	29	17	13	2	23	24	20	3
2011	NYY	AL	27	CF	3	38	3	1	2	0	0	0	1	0
2012	NYY	AL	28	LF	-0	-2	-0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0
	4 Seasons			LF	54	28	47	26	20	7	49	25	34	11
	4 Seasons			CF	7	8	5	4	1	3	28	28	18	5
	5 Seasons			TOT	62	21	51	30	21	10	154	53	52	16

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	CF	OF	DH	PH	PR
2008	NYY	AL	24	42	32	42	38	17	22	39	1	1	5
2009	NYY	AL	25	108	63	108	99	0	99	99	3	6	11
2010	NYY	AL	26	150	134	150	146	123	44	167	2	4	5
2011	NYY	AL	27	159	134	159	156	149	18	156	0	2	5
2012	NYY	AL	28	9	8	9	9	9	0	9	0	0	0
	5 Seasons			468	371	468	448	298	183	470	6	13	26

Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
2008	NYY	AL	24	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	8	7	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	2	2	0	14	12	85.7%	2	0	0.0%	1	585	44%	69%	33%	55	47%
2010	NYY	AL	26	1	0	0	1	0	9	0	2	2	5	33	27	2	22	10	3	13	9	1	11	1	1	23	21	0	102	68	66.7%	27	7	6.9%	2	3809	55%	75%	39%	384	54%
2011	NYY	AL	27	4	0	4	0	1	7	1	2	0	2	43	36	1	33	14	1	24	19	0	21	5	1	40	36	1	161	110	68.3%	47	4	2.5%	3	4959	53%	75%	39%	549	54%
2012	NYY	AL	28	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	7	6	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	11	8	72.7%	3	0	0.0%	1	336	60%	69%	36%	34	41%
	4 Seasons			5	0	4	1	1	18	1	6	2	7	91	76	3	60	26	4	37	28	1	34	8	2	66	60	1	288	198	68.8%	79	11	3.8%	7	9689	54%	75%	38%	1022	53%
	MLB Averages																														63.8%			2.2%			57%	76%	39%		47%

Advanced Fielding -- CF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
2008	NYY	AL	24	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	1	3	11	9	0	8	1	3	2	1	0	5	1	0	6	3	0	32	15	46.9%	14	3	9.4%	1	683	44%	74%	37%	95	60%
2009	NYY	AL	25	2	0	2	0	1	3	1	0	0	2	34	23	0	29	6	1	20	11	0	9	1	1	19	12	0	111	53	47.7%	56	2	1.8%	1	2722	56%	74%	39%	358	52%
2010	NYY	AL	26	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	2	0	0	14	10	0	12	2	0	5	1	0	1	0	0	13	8	0	45	21	46.7%	24	0	0.0%	3	1287	56%	76%	39%	165	54%
2011	NYY	AL	27	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	2	0	7	4	57.1%	3	0	0.0%	0	379	57%	68%	35%	47	60%
	4 Seasons			3	0	3	0	1	10	2	2	1	5	61	44	0	50	9	4	27	13	0	16	2	1	41	25	0	195	93	47.7%	97	5	2.6%	5	5071	55%	74%	39%	665	54%
	MLB Averages																														45.6%			1.8%			57%	76%	39%		53%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 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

Total Zone Runs† s c a p y 2010 AL 19 (1st) 2011 AL 34 (1st) Active 62 (24th)	Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2010 AL 123 (4th) 2011 AL 149 (2nd)	Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2010 AL 200 (5th) 2011 AL 294 (2nd)	Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2010 AL 9 (2nd) 2011 AL 7 (2nd)
Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2011 AL 4 (3rd)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 2011 AL 156 (2nd)	Assists as OF s c a p y 2010 AL 12 (2nd)	Total Zone Runs as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2010 AL 21 (1st) 2011 AL 31 (1st) Active 54 (2nd) Career 54 (11th)
Range Factor/9Inn as LF (s.1954)† s c a p y 2011 AL 2.34 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2011 AL 2.02 (3rd)	Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2010 AL .995 (2nd) 2011 AL .987 (5th)	Total Zone Runs as OF s c a p y 2010 AL 19 (1st) 2011 AL 34 (1st) Active 62 (8th) Career 62 (49th)

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