CHICAGO — By one reasonable standard, Greg Bird isn’t even halfway to judgment.

Can the Yankees afford to hang around for the verdict?

Bird, the Yankees’ first baseman, suffered a notable indignity — and set off another alarm in the team’s faniverse Tuesday — when he rode the bench for the final three frames of the Yankees’ 4-3, 13-inning victory over the White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field (worst ballpark name ever). In the top of the 11th inning, Aaron Boone opted to pinch hit the recently acquired, righty-hitting Luke Voit for Bird against White Sox left-hander Xavier Cedeno. Voit struck out, although he did contribute a single to the game-winning rally.

Good managers deploy all of their resources, and good teams give their managers myriad options.

It’s just that Voit, with a career .250/.283/.500 slash line against southpaws entering Wednesday night’s game, isn’t exactly a modern-day Frank Thomas.

Then again, for all of the hopes the Yankees have for Bird, their prodigal first baseman, he hasn’t looked exactly like a modern-day Don Mattingly himself.

“I don’t think he’s far off,” Boone said of Bird on Wednesday, before the Yankees completed their series with the Chisox. “I think it’s a few days of, sometimes he gets underneath the ball a little too much. That’s what he does well, hit the ball in the air, put it in the seats. So maybe just a little bit off, but I don’t really see much to think that he’s not close to clicking again.”

Bird took a .215/.306/.410 slash line for 2018 into Wednesday’s starting lineup, and for his career, he stood at .222/.312/.450 in 580 plate appearances. That’s not even a full season of work, even though he made his major league debut in 2015, and that light workload reflects the boatload of injuries that the 25-year-old has battled.

Billy Eppler, now the Angels’ general manager, worked for the Yankees when they selected Bird in the fifth round of the 2011 amateur draft. I recalled speaking to Eppler back in 2015 about Didi Gregorius, another acquisition in which he played a significant role, and he mentioned a tenet he held about player evaluation.

A position player needs 1,250 to 1,500 big-league plate appearances, Eppler reiterated in a text message Wednesday. That, he wrote, is when “you have an idea of what the player’s standard level of performance [is].”

That represents more than two full seasons. Gregorius didn’t hit that range until the end of ’15; remember how many folks wanted him banished to Siberia early in his first season as a Yankee?

We’ve seen the flashes of excellence in Bird, be it relatively larger samples (his .261/.343/.529 slash line in 46 games as Mark Teixeira’s injury replacement in ’15) or smaller ones (a .244/.426/.512 in 13 postseason games last October, including his memorable homer against tough Cleveland lefty Andrew Miller). This season, after missing the first eight weeks to recover from his latest injury (right ankle), Bird heated up while never quite getting hot and then turned ice cold.

His better full month was July, a .795 OPS that can’t match the .810 his White Sox counterpart Jose Abreu held for the whole year through Tuesday. His ghastly .237 OPS through his first seven August games — although, Boone pointed out, White Sox center fielder Adam Engel robbed him of a homer on Monday night — surely led Boone to go with Voit against Cedeno, who fares slightly better against lefty hitters (.669 OPS entering Wednesday) than righties (.694).

“Bird is a guy that usually, against most or all lefties, I’m very comfortable with him in those spots,” Boone said late Tuesday. “But Cedeno’s the one guy that we just like the matchup a little bit better there.”

The Yankees believe enough in Bird, who didn’t make himself available for comment on Wednesday afternoon, that they traded first baseman Tyler Austin to the Twins for Lance Lynn. With the team amidst an easy stretch in the schedule, it has the margin for error to keep giving reps to Bird.

At some point, though, Bird will have to soar higher and longer than he has to date. Or else it will be time to ground him.