I’ll be the first to admit that I was wrong about the talent Aaron Hicks has. I was willing to appreciate that Hicks was a former top prospect with many of the raw tools of a successful ballplayer, but the results never showed over his first 1289 major league plate appearances. I wrote about this back in March, largely talking about how his spring training performance shouldn’t influence their decision to make anyone other Aaron Judge the starting right fielder out of camp, a funny thought in itself now.
It’s not like this wasn’t coming from a place of ignorance: Hicks hit just .