Welcome to the mid-season outfield defensive check-in. Just a reminder, for the defensive check-in series we are using Ultimate Zone Rating (UZR) and Defensive Runs Saved (DRS). You can read more about these two defensive metrics and how they are calculated here.
The Yankees outfield defense has been extremely impressive this season. We don’t need advanced metrics to tell us that, but I am going to refer to them anyway. The Yanks rank third in DRS at +27 behind the Diamondbacks (+30) and Brewers (+40). They also rank second in UZR at +15.1 behind only the Brewers (+18).