How Yankees should handle the return of Aaron Hicks

Cindy: Brenda, I thought you were dead.
Brenda: Oh, I thought you were dead, too!
— “Scary Movie 4”

Let’s face it: We all thought Aaron Hicks’ 2019 baseball season was dead. Including Hicks. The center fielder’s 2020 stood in jeopardy, moreover, as he chillaxed at his Arizona home and waited to see whether his ailing right elbow would require Tommy John surgery.

“Being told you might have to get Tommy John is where it’s at,” Hicks said Thursday at Yankee Stadium. “That’s pretty much the low of the low. That’s like the worst thing to hear.