Pinstripe Alley · Mar 30, 2017
The Yankees’ obsession with Aaron Hicks is self-defeating
Photo by Joel Auerbach/Getty ImagesIf you’ve been following the Yankees as much as I have over the past few years, one creeping observation, one many have pointed out, is the Yankees front office’s obsession with bad players.
You can go down the list: Eduardo Nunez held up a possible Cliff Lee deal and piled up plate appearances despite being consistently atrocious; Sergio Mitre somehow pitched over 100 innings from 2009 to 2010; Stephen Drew got a full season’s worth of at-bats despite being below replacement level; Dustin Ackley was hotly pursued by Brian Cashman since as early as 2014 before completely falling apart on arrival. I can go on, and I’ll end with one more: Aaron Hicks.