BALTIMORE — Heliot Ramos hasn’t done anything to warrant a spot in the heart of the Yankees’ order since joining the team. And yet, he’s become a fixture there.

The right-handed hitter, acquired from the Giants for prospects Henry Lalane and Kaeden Kent prior to the trade deadline, has primarily hit third or fourth for his new club with Aaron Boone trying to find balance in an injury-riddled, underachieving lineup. Ramos found himself in the cleanup spot again for Wednesday’s game against the Orioles despite entering the day 3-for-39 (.077) with a .371 OPS over 12 games as a Yankee.

In Tuesday’s 3-1 win over Baltimore, Ramos went 0-for-3 with two strikeouts and a walk while batting third.

On Wednesday, Aaron Boone acknowledged that Ramos may be pressing a little bit, but the manager mentioned that the corner outfielder hasn’t been chasing pitches out of the strike zone.

“I think there’s a level of, ‘He wants to show us,’ but we know we got a good player here and a good hitter,” Boone said. “He’s fit in very well here. I think you just want to prove yourself, so there’s probably a little bit of that going on.”

Boone also said that Ramos has “definitely hit into some tough luck” in a Yankees uniform. It’s a point Boone has made numerous times, and with good reason.

Since Ramos’ first game as a Yankee on Aug. 4, he owns a weighted on-base average (wOBA) of .178 but an expected weighted on-base average (xwOBA), which measures one’s quality of contact, of .299 (prior to Wednesday). That .121-point difference was the second-largest of any player in the majors with at least 40 plate appearances over that stretch, per Baseball Savant.

Only the Angels’ Moisés Ballesteros (.125) had a bigger discrepancy between his wOBA and xwOBA.

Boone also noted that Ramos, best suited for a platoon role, has had to play against a lot of right-handed pitchers as a Yankee. That’s not ideal — and won’t last forever with Cody Bellinger, Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge all expected back from injuries before season’s end — but will continue for the time being.

“One of the things he’s always done is hit lefties,” Boone said, “and he’s come over here and we’ve faced 1,000 right-handers in a row.”

A MINOR TRADE

The trade deadline has passed, but minor leaguers that are not on 40-man rosters can still be dealt. That’s how the Yankees were able to send catcher Christian Bethancourt to the Pirates for cash considerations on Wednesday.

The Yankees had signed the veteran to a minor league deal on July 28 for depth in the event that they traded for a big league catcher and had to boot backup Ali Sánchez, who doesn’t have minor league options, off the roster.

However, the Yankees didn’t trade for a catcher before the deadline. Instead, they signed Mitch Garver to a minor league deal of his own afterward. Another veteran, he’s at Triple-A alongside J.C. Escarra, so the Yankees still have some catching depth with experience.