- Hit .314 with 10 HR and 78 RBI in winning the American-League Rookie-of-the-Year Award
- Became the club's first Opening-Day rookie shortstop since Tom Tresh in 1962 and hit his first Major-League home run on Opening Day which was a solo shot off Dennis Martinez on 4/2 at Cleveland
- Led the Yankees with 183 hits and 156 games started (all at SS)
- Tied with Tino Martinez for the team lead in multi-hit games with 49
- Was fourth in the American League with 142 singles
- Played the most games of any American-League rookie (157) and had a stretch of 105 starts before sitting out the second game of a doubleheader on 9/25 vs. Milwaukee
- Had a career-high 17-game hitting streak from 9/7-25, the longest by a Yankee rookie since Joe DiMaggio's streak of 18 games in 1936
- His 77 RBI were the most by a rookie shortstop since Julio Franco drove in 80 in 1980 (no other rookie in the expansion era has driven in more than 75)
- Hit an inside-the-park home run on 8/2 at Kansas City, the first by a Yankee since Alvaro Espinoza on 7/21/90 at Minnesota
- Hit .361 with 12 R, 1 HR and 3 RBI in the postseason
- Scored the game-winning run in the bottom of the 12th inning in Game Two of the Division Series vs. Texas after 3B Dean Palmer overthrew first base on a Charlie Hayes bunt
- Hit a controversial game-tying home run off Armando Benitez in the eighth inning of Game One of the ALCS when a young fan reached over the wall (Yankees would win 5-4 in 11 innings)
- Was named American-League Rookie-of-the-Year by the BBWAA
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