Memorial Day weekend has arrived, and while in the real world it serves as the unofficial beginning of summer and a chance to get away for a long weekend, in the baseball world it serves as the first real benchmark of a 162-game marathon.

Over the first two months of the season, it can be difficult to know which early numbers are a sign of things to come and which can be written off as being a small sample size that will even out as the season goes on.

But Memorial Day weekend gives teams a chance to come up for air and evaluate where they and their players are, nearly a third of the way through the season.

With that in mind, here are three trends the Yankees have established heading into the holiday weekend, with a look at whether they are real or not: