One of the joys of the information age in baseball is the ability to see which players are under or overvalued by the market. This is really the crux of Moneyball – discovering traits ahead of the market and acquiring them at a discount. For the last two seasons, there’s been little doubt that the most undervalued player on the New York Yankees has been Aaron Hicks.
A bit of a reclamation project at the time of his trade to New York, Hicks has blossomed into one of the premier center fielders in all of baseball.