At the break, a couple of things stand out to me.
Josh Donaldson has been less valuable than I expected. To be fair, he still gets on base a lot relative to his batting average. The problem is, his batting average is so bad that even with his walk rate, he gets on base less than the league average. It's to the point now where I don't think we'll see much regression to the mean here. This is probably who Donaldson is at this point in his career. I might expect the Yankees to look for some depth at 3B -- at least from a hitting perspective. Donaldson HAS been good defensively.
On the flip side, Gleyber Torres has found a bit of his stroke this season. Currently OPSing .809 after 2 years in the low .700s. He's even managed to be a bit above average defensively so the Yankees have to be thrilled with that. This is kind of a big deal because the Yankees haven't had much reliable production out of the middle infield spots in recent years so it's good to see that there's a threat outside of Judge/Stanton.
Aaron Hicks is still a bad baseball player. At best he's league average. He is currently on a hot streak in July. But I don't expect that to last for very long.
I hoped to see a bit more K potential out of Jordan Montgomery but it hasn't been there. He's still a good pitcher but if there's anyone who will be on a short leash come October, it's him.
