RUSSELL MARTIN: REVIEWING OUR PROJECTIONS

We've reviewed our projections on the Yankees pitching and now we will review the rest of the players. If you remember, we wrote YANKEES PROJECTIONS 2011: THE INFIELD. Over the next few weeks, we'll review all our projections. We start with Russell Martin.

RUSSELL MARTIN

• Projected: .255 Avg, 13 Hrs, 45 RBI

• 2011: .237, 18 Hrs, 65 RBI

We were pretty much off the mark on everything with Martin. He didn't hit for the average like we thought, and he hit for more power and produced more than we thought as well. At the beginning of the season we thought that Martin wouldn't be the full time catcher by the middle of the season... we were dead wrong with that. Although Martin's numbers don't look spectacular, he's been probably the best offseason pickup for the Yankees. He arguably had the biggest hit of the Yankees season on September 1st against the Red Sox and Daniel Bard when he hit a 2-run, two out double when the Yanks were trailing by a run in the 7th inning. Also, Martin's defense this season has been very solid this season, throwing out nearly 30% of base runners this season.

Read a few of our pieces on Martin. Click and enjoy:

WHY RUSSELL MARTIN HAS BALLS

WHY MARTIN'S A FACTOR

JETER & MARTIN EXCHANGE TEXTS

MARTIN'S COMING TO THE BRONX




--Jesse Schindler, BYB Staff Writer




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