Aaron Hicks has officially been surpassed by unlikeliest Yankee

Aaron Hicks falling out of favor with the New York Yankees has been downright depressing. He just recently fell behind yet another milestone.

Even if you’re a New York Yankees fan, you have to feel for Aaron Hicks. If the team could just find a team that would be open to trading for him at decent value, you have to assume the change of scenery would do him well. Some guys just can’t cut it in New York. He can’t possibly be this bad, right?

Heck, look at what Joey Gallo has been doing with the Minnesota Twins this year!

Hicks, from the moment this season started, has been a transient part of the team’s strategy at best. A milestone just passed him by that makes it clear how out-of-favor he is in Aaron Boone’s scheme right now.

Aaron Hicks got passed at his own position by an unlikely player

Even when it looked like a string of injuries would give him more opportunities to play at his natural position, Hicks has been passed by. Giancarlo Stanton will be out for six weeks, and Harrison Bader still isn’t back from his injury.

That news, initially, appeared to be good for Hicks as an outfielder. It would create opportunities for him because the Yankees had no other players with solid outfield experience.

Instead, the team called up Oswald Cabrera to play thid and has relied on Isaiah Kiner-Falefa, who has now started nine games in the outfield, one more than Hicks, an outfielder by trade, has started this year. IKF, before this season, had not played a single outfield inning in his MLB career.

Ouch.

The gap is about to get wider, considering IKF is the starting centerfielder for Sunday’s game while Hicks rides the bench. That’s despite Hicks actually having a stronger on-base percentage than IKF (though IKF is stronger in most other batting metrics, but still not good offensively).

There’s no good answer for the Hicks situation. Clearly, he’s not trusted at the plate or in the field. Boone has opted to give players with less experience a role he is arguably better suited for. The writing is on the wall: Hicks won’t be long for the Yankees. It’s just a question of how his time in the Bronx will end.