Two Off Days?!

What's a fan to do for TWO whole days without Yankee ball, when they've been playing every single day for the last 20?...

I wanted to see if I could determine who's been the best offensive and defensive Yankees over the last 35 years - roughly the Steinbrenner/free agency era. So here we go:

Offense
2006
Runs Created: Derek Jeter leads with 101.3 total, 2 Giambi, 3 Damon.
RC per game: Bobby Abreu leads with 10.73 (but he's only been with the team for 27 games), 2 Giambi, 3 Jeter
On-base + Slugging (OPS): Jason Giambi leads with 1.014, 2 Abreu, 3 Jeter.
Win Probability Average (WPA): Jeter leads with 4.87, 2 Giambi, 3 Damon.
VORP: 1 Jeter, 2 Giambi, 3 Damon.
RARP: 1 Jeter, 2 Giambi, 3 Damon

If you negate Abreu because of his sparse time with the Yanks so far, it becomes clear that the 3 best offensive players this year are:
1. Jeter
2. Giambi
3. Damon

I wouldn't argue with that.

Offense Total (with Yanks)
1974-2005
OPS adjusted: 1 Arod, 2 Giambi, 3 Reggie, 4 Rickey Henderson
RC total: 1 Bernie, 2 Mattingly, 3 Jeter

Baseball-Reference uses a too simple version of Runs Created for me to rely on it.

Offense Single Season
1974-2005
OPS adjusted:
Oneil 1994, 177
Giambi 2002, 174
Reggie 1980, 172
Arod 2005, 167
Mattingly 1986, 161
Jeter 1999, 161
Bernie 1998, 159
Rickey 1985, 157

No WPA that I can find before 2002.

'Bona-fide Wins':
Rickey 1985, 7.0
Oneil 1994, 3.9 (103 gms) projects => 6.1
Arod 2005, 5.8
Mattingly 1984, 5.4
Posada 2003, 5.2
Randolph 1980, 5.0
Mattingly 1986, 4.6
Munson 1975, 4.5
Giambi 2002, 4.4
Bernie 1999, 4.2
Reggie 1980, 4.0
Bernie 1998, 3.9
Jeter 1999, 3.4

VORP (ML rank that year):
Mattingly 1986, (1)
Jeter 1999, (1)
Arod 2005, (2)
Rickey 1985, (2)
Mattingly 1984, (4)
Giambi 2002, (4)
Reggie 1980, (5)
Mattingly 1985, (5)
Randolph 1980, (6)
Bernie 1999, (6)
Winfield 1988, (7)
Rickey 1986, (8)
Oneil 1994, (8)
Jeter 1998, (8)
Bernie 1998, (9)
Munson 1975, (17)

Very tough. The top 5 could almost be in any order, but since I said I'd do it, here goes. The best offensive Yankee seasons of the last 32 years:

1. Mattingly 1986 .352 ba, .394 obp, .573 slg, 117 r, 53 2b, 31 HR, 113 rbi, 53 bb, 35 k, 0 sb, 0 cs
2. O'Neill 1994 what a shame :( .359 ba, .460 obp, .603 slg, 68 r, 25 2b, 21 HR, 83 rbi, 5 sb, 4 cs, 72 bb, 56 k - on pace for: 107 r, 39 2b, 33 HR, 131 rbi, 113 bb, 88 k
3. Rickey 1985 .314 ba, .419 obp, .516 slg, 146 r, 28 2b, 5 3b, 24 HR, 72 rbi, 80 sb, 10 cs, 99 bb, 65 k
4. Arod 2005 .321 ba, .421 obp, .610 slg, 124 r, 29 2b, 48 HR, 130 rbi, 21 sb, 6 cs, 91 bb, 139 k
5. Giambi 2002 .314 ba, .435 obp, .598 slg, 120 r, 34 2b, 41 HR, 122 rbi, 2 sb, 2 cs, 109 bb, 112 k
6. Jeter 1999 .349 ba, .438 obp, .552 slg, 134 r, 37 2b, 9 3b, 24 HR, 102 rbi, 19 sb, 8 cs, 91 bb, 116 k
7. Reggie 1980 .300 ba, .398 obp, .597 slg, 94 r, 22 2b, 4 3b, 41 HR, 111 rbi, 1 sb, 2 cs, 83 bb, 122 k

This took a long, long time. I'll try to get to defense & pitching tomorrow.