Stupid question, don't mind me, I'm just a dumb fan, but.... can anyone explain why Aaron Hicks isn't batting second?

I realize that Gary Sanchez was cover boy for the official 2017 Yankee spring merchandising orgy, the team's version of Fashion Week, and - also - as the YES men constantly remind us - any moment now, he'll go molten, like Trump on the toilet and tweet out 10 homers in a week, just like last August, when he was suddenly christened Chief Dingo of the Wompadoop Tribe. The hits will come, they assure us, everything will be so great that I'll be tired of winning, and, oh dang, Gary jeeeeuuuuuuuuuuust missed that last pitch, the one he popped out to short left.

Gary is hitting .248 - not all that far from his .275 career minor league average - and if his HR numbers are low (6), it's because he missed a month and has only played in 30 of the Yankees' 55 games. His on-base percentage is is .336 - eighth highest among Yankee starters. (Yep, even Castro and Didi - They Who Never Walk - have higher OBPs.) 

Gary is a slugging catcher, and before this season is done, I believe he will prove to be a worthy one. But lately, when the Yankees fall behind, we seem to be waiting for two particular hitters to start something, and both their names are Aaron, and it sure would be neat if they didn't usually come to bat in separate innings. 

Last night, Aaron Hicks went 2-3 with a walk - reaching base 3-out-of-4 times, elevating his on-base percentage to .439, second in the AL behind some guy named Trout. Fat lot of good it did us.

In the second inning, Hicks scored from first on a single, making a mad dash to third that provoked Mookie Betts into throwing a ball away. But then Chase Headley and Chris Carter, as usual, stranded a runner on third. (It proved to be the night's fatal moment, though we didn't know it at the time.) 

In the fourth, Hicks and Didi Gregorius were stranded when Headley tapped into a double play. In the sixth, Hicks was eliminated when Didi grounded into a DP. In the eighth, Boston retired him. He didn't get a crack at the ninth inning, because - HEY, WHEN YOU BAT SIXTH, YOU GET FEWER CHANCES. 

Time after time, Hicks reached base, so the bottom third of our order - alias the Washington Deep State Swamp - could leave him wriggling out there like Jim Comey in a Rose Garden gala. Meanwhile, Gary went 0-5 with two strikeouts. 

Now, I recognize that a) nobody should draw vast conclusions from one game, and b) any minute now, Gary will start launching things into the stratosphere like Kim Jung-un, and c) I am just a stupid fan, sitting at home and hugging my Yankee kewpie, searching for meaning in a meaningless void, but but BUT... I ask one humble question: What The, like, Fuck? If King Gary were a base stealing threat or even a slightly fast-runner, my lizard mind might comprehend why he's hitting second. And when the Yankees were scoring 6-8-10 runs per game, nobody gave a barking crap who batted where. But lately we are dying - sucking the water out of cactus roots - for each and every run. And I don't know why why WHY our best hitter that is not named Aaron Judge is batting sixth? Can somebody tell me? Or tap the fucking mirror, or speak the incantation, or do something to vault me into the nearby alternative universe, where Hicks is hitting second, and we won last night. Jeez.