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[QUOTE="Fly Rodder, post: 3149418, member: 2133"]
He may have been an above average defender in RF, but he has a very small sample size in left, a little more than 4% of his total defensive innings and all were in NY.  Most of that value is tied up in 2018 where was +4 DRS and -1 this season in only 60 innings.  Available defensive stats are terribly imprecise and get less accurate with smaller sample sizes. Typically, they should be relied on with 1-2 seasons or more.   Stanton had +49 DRS over his entire career in RF, which is about 1,000 games. Based on that rate, an expected DRS rate in LF could be similar, which works out to be +1.7.  Instead, he has +3 DRS, so nearly double the value, mostly from ~30 games in 2018.

I suspect that he's probably a little less than average at best in left, right now, and his injuries are only going to slow him down more.  That contract is going to be an albatross going forward for the austerity minded Yankees.   They'll have a between a 1/5 and 1/4 of their payroll tied up in Ellsbury and Stanton next season.

The Yankees will nearly certainly re-sign Gardner and Stanton will play mostly DH, while rotating in and out of the OF as needed.   The decision will be between Frazier and Tauchman.
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