Wells and Hafner surprising many.

If you you would have told me back before spring training, that Travis Hafner and Vernon Wells were going to be two of the Yankees best three hitters, I would have guessed that the team was well under .500. That would have been a guess that was well off reality.

Infact, the Yankees are 10-6, 2nd in the American League East. A division where the 7-11 Blue Jays were suppose to win by a land slide. In the first few weeks it's been quite the opposite.

New York without some of their best players, were only hoping that guys like Wells and Hafner could help so much as hang around in the dog fight that is he AL East.

Insted these guys have turned around their careers and are starting have one of the best years that they've each had in a while.

Vernon Wells had fallen off the radar of the games top outfielders since singing his large contract with the Blue Jays a few years ago. He's been traded twice since then, and has landed in New York, feeling less pressure than ever before.

Wells admitted that he tried to hard to live up to the big contact by trying to hit homeruns in every at-bat. But in New York he feels like he can approach the game differently. "My goal was to just get back to the basics and just put the barrel on the ball as many times as I can, shorten my swing and use the ther field." Wells said.

"I forgot what right field was for a couple of year. You get caught up in hitting homeruns and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes."

In 15 games this season, Wells in battng over .300, with 5 HR's and 8 RBI's. Wells returned to Toronto this weekend for the 1st time as a Yankee and he's went deep in each of th first 2 games of the series.

Travis Hafner spent 10 season as a member of the Cleveland Indians and over the last few years he's slowly declined as one of baseball's top power hitters. Bothered by injury last year, Hafner only played 66 games with a .228 average and 12 homeruns.

Hafner has averaged 86 games per season since 2008. He underwent meniscus surgery in May of last season and he also missed more than 40 games with a buldging disk in his back.

Now 35, Hafner lost weight over the offseason to help relieve pressure off his back and knees. The Yankees and Joe Girardi have also done their part in only playing Hafner part time, keeping him out of the lineup against lefties.

And so far this year, Hafner has looked like everything the Yankees could only hope for. With a team leading batting average of .349, Hafner has sent 5 longballs deep, driving in 10 runs.

In his first at-bat in his return to Cleveland, he made fans remember his name with a towering 3-run homerun to center field.

If he can just stay healthy, Hafner figures to be a huge part of the Yankees lineup while they wait for the reinforcements to return.

There's no Granderson, no Teixera, no Jeter, and no A-Rod. But there is a Cano, a Hafner, and a Wells. And right now there's no difference in the production. So just keep swimming Yankees, because if you thought these guys were producing wins, just wait until your big money hitters come back.

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