February 27: Jon Heyman of The New York Post reports the salary breakdown on Boone’s deal. His salary this season jumps to $4.5M. He’ll respectively make $5MM and $5.5MM in 2026 and ’27.
February 20: The Yankees announced this morning that they’ve signed manager Aaron Boone to a two-year contract extension covering the 2026-27 seasons. His previous contract was set to expire after 2025, so this takes him out of “lame duck” status.
The news doesn’t come as a shock. Teams generally don’t like to have managers operating in a lame-duck position. The Yankees did it with Boone once before, in 2021, though that was a rare occurrence. He originally joined the Yankees via a three-year deal going into 2018, with a club option for 2021. The Yanks picked up that option and did let Boone manage that season on an expiring contract.
On October 19 of that year, Boone and the club agreed to a new three-year deal which covered the 2022-24 seasons and came with a ’25 option. There was perhaps a bit of drama around his status as manager when the club missed the playoffs in 2023, but they bounced back last year by winning the American League East and going as far as the World Series. The Yanks picked up their ’25 option at the start of the offseason. More recently, both owner Hal Steinbrenner and general manager Brian Cashman spoke of wanting to get an extension done.
Boone is a divisive figure in the fanbase but there’s a lot of good stuff on his track record. The Yanks have made the postseason in six of his seven seasons at the helm, with the aforementioned 2023 campaign being the lone exception. They have had some tough postseason losses but, as mentioned, just went to the World Series a few months ago. As skipper, he has a regular season record of 603-429, a .584 winning percentage.
Though some fans will remain unhappy with Boone until he wins a title, it would have been very unusual for a club to move on from a manager or even let him stay in lame-duck status on the heels of winning a pennant.
As always, the Yankees will be going into the upcoming season with their eyes on contention. They lost Juan Soto but had an aggressive offseason nonetheless, adding Max Fried, Cody Bellinger, Paul Goldschmidt, Devin Williams and others. Another disappointing season will embolden those who are already upset with Boone, but the club clearly feels good enough to put pen to paper with him today, avoiding in-season storylines about his uncertain contract status.
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swag – This is great news!
For the rest of the league!
To be fair he just took the yanks to the WS
But judge is really the true manager
To be fair, boone didn’t take them to the WS. He was along for the ride and kept trying to sabotage them from the back seat by covering the driver’s eyes.
A monkey with a transplanted goldfish brain could have managed the Yankees to the WS. All the player achievements are despite Boone, not because of Boone. We have to overcome the other team and also our own manager’s incompetence.
@sad
how is Judge calling the shots?
The problem is the Judge nemesis in the WS lock of produce
Yankees got there by default because no one else in the AL was really any good. They had no chance against the Dodgers
Having Soto helped them get there. Take him out and they probably don’t get there
Stanton was the best player in the AL playoffs last season. Not Judge or Soto. They would not have made it without Big G.
@Sick
I hate to call people dumb or lazy but you’re either or. Yanks, with the lack of production from Rizzo, Verdugo and DJ, ranked 3rd in offensive WAR behind AZ and LAD. The Yanks, despite the bad defensive showing in the WS, ranked 3rd overall defensive WAR behind KC and TOR. Their starting pitching was 8th in the AL and 11th overall in ERA, 7th in the AL in FIP, 8th in WAR and 3rd in K/9 in the AL. That was with no Fried and a lot of missed starts by Cole and Schmidt. Their bullpen was up and down. 7th in ERA but more around 15th in FIP and WAR. But they revamped the bullpen with Williams and others. To say they were lucky to win because the others were awful is in correct. They won 94 games despite a inconsistent bullpen and missing 25 starts from Cole and Schmidt. If the pitching can stay healthy then I don’t see why the Yanks wouldn’t be the best team in the AL.
Soto made Stanton better. Having Judge, Stanton, Soto was lethal, but clearly not enough for the NL.
To be honest, you could have taken that team to a WS and would have probably had a better outcome. That’s even with your obvious lack of baseball knowledge.
No, Judge is not the true manager.
Thank you for the sanity @Knicks. Some posters just like to complain I guess.
Being the best in the AL is one thing. Overcoming his screwups in October is quite another. People say the dodgers outclassed the Yankees. After all, they won 4 of 5. However, Boone screwed up 2 of those games. They should have had a lead after 5 games instead of being eliminated.
They are still a good team that can win 90 games but they still had some luck as well. There’s not much to comprehend there. Take out Soto and their chances diminish in the postseason.
The Cardinals Fans would gladly swap Oli Marmal for the Yankees Aaron Boone!!!
The Yankees Fan would kiss Boone’s feet to get him to return after a month of Oli Marmol reverse decision making.
In other words—- if Marmol decides to do things one way, —— you can bet your bottom dollar it should have been done the other way!!
exactly, I’ll be the real happy now, waiting for Boone’s next bonehead move or decision
No need for panic, managers don’t effect the outcome of games they don’t even make their own decisions. He’s great with the media, he’s great with the players, and the team keeps finishing above .500
I don’t know, someone had to make the decision to put a rusty, bitter, Nestor Cortes in to game one of the World Series to face Freddie Freeman with the bases loaded. He didn’t put himself in…
@Rsox “bitter”
It was to face Ohtani whom he got to foul out on one pitch. Cortes’ mistake was throwing the exact same pitch to Freeman who saw it in the on-deck circle and guessed right….
It was absolutely his decision to bring in Cortes instead of Hill. He followed what the “numbers” said because he has no feel for the game. He always wants the fall back excuse. How many times do you hear bad management say after a disaster…”Our numbers said this was the best decisions’.
And Cortes went to Milwaukee in the trade that brought Devin Williams to The Bronx.
@scott
it’s so easy to “Monday morning QB a guy. Boone’s decision was logical. The new rule says a relief pitcher has to face a minimum of 3 batters. Cortes and Hill are both lefties. Cirtes is better lefty bs lefty compared to Hill bit hela also better lefty bs right compared to Hill. So he brought in the lefty that was also best to face the next batter who was a righty. That’s a dependable decision
There is zero Monday morning quarterbacking in this situation. I was yelling at the TV how stupid that decision was before Cortes threw his last bullpen pitch to come into the game. I believe my exact words were “This is the spot you decide to use Nestor for his first appearance in 30 days!”
I was shocked that ohtani swung and fouled out on the first pitch. He got himself out.
If Nestor had pitched at all in the last 30 days I would have been fine with it. But he had faced zero live action. Even the best pitchers need a few outings to shake off the rust. So all those positive Nestor numbers are not applicable in that moment. All I know is that Hill was getting people out in big spots all playoffs.
@Scott
if Cortes is on the post- season roster then he needs to be ready to do his job. looking to bring him in with no one on might not be an option.
@KnicksFan
Just because you are on a post season roster doesn’t mean you should be put into one of the highest pressure situation of GAME 1 does it? Nester doesn’t usually pitch out of the pen, he is a starter. That spot is not his natural role, so why are we expecting him to now be put in the spot and be successful?
He could have been used in a long relief role if a starter got blasted early? Plenty of spots to use him outside of an away game in extra innings facing Ohtani and Freeman with the bases loaded..
End of the day I was shocked he was on the post season roster. It was not like he pitched like a pitcher who the yankees needed to have in the post season.
But this is what Cashman and Boone do with struggling vets.like DJ, Verdugo, Rizzo, they keep going with them over and over and over and over no matter what. And they use them as if they have been playing well. How long did it take the yankees to stop using Clay Holmes as the closer? Then he has 2 good outings as a 6th/7th inning man and he is right back into tight late inning spots again.. Shockingly he started to struggle…again.
Boone is absolutely apart of post-season roster decisions. I don’t think Nestor deserved to be on the WS roster at all.
it’s not Monday morning, quarterbacking why do you assume that, when a person thought the exact same thing at the time it was being done that it was a bad move. As did me and my friends, you don’t have to believe it, but I know the truth.
exactly, I said the same thing to that commenter. Anyone with half a brain would know that was a bad move at the time it was being done as did me and my friends and many other people I spoke to.
you’re right, I thought the same thing.
What MLBTR missed when noting Boone’s pending contract is that this news does come as a bit of a shock, or certainly a surprise. No, not because some fans don’t like him, but because the Yankees don’t extend their managers, GMs and coaches until their contracts expire. By doing that, they eliminate the “lame duck” status MLBTR references. Now, they’ve reintroduced it for future managers, as well as Cashman as their head of baseball ops. There’s a story behind this, but no one has written it yet.
Boonie seems like a stand-up guy. Somebody I could have a beer with. And there’s nothing wrong with that.
That’s awesome for beer drinking, and not so good for managing a MLB team. I want a baseball nerd, not a beer buddy.
I hear ya
Boone had the 3nf highest winning %among current managers
Boone had the 2nd highest winning % among current managers
That is not a “manager” statistic. Cashman gives Boone 90 wins with roster construction. Are you suggesting that the Pirates would have the same record as the Yankees if they had Boone as a manager??
My mother always told me, if you can’t say anything nice don’t say anything at all.
Ahahahahahaha!
Aaron Boone has the 10th highest all time winning percentage for a manager in mlb history. Just saying
lmao we’ll never learn huh
Congrats, Yankees fans!
More like….. “Congratulations AL East teams!”
Yeah we are so happy that *checks* the reigning division champions are keeping their manager.
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Clip – Can’t wait for Boone to pull Cole and bring in Headrick or Hill to face Soto or Freeman …. gotta bring in the lefty to face the LHB, correct? ;O)
The worst part isnt his poor in-game management…. It’s the fact that I committed to keeping his pic on my profile until he was officially gone… “Noooooo”
Clip,
Look on the bright side, you might get to see some more of Boone when he goes on Jomboy lol
Sending you my condolences,Clip
Clip – Did you commit to specifically an “Aaron Boone” pic?
Or did you just say “Boone”?
If it was just “Boone”, perhaps use a pic of Daniel Boone?
Or Pat Boone?
Or Debby Boone?
Ray? Bob? Bret?
You could switch to a happier Boone moment, like the ’03 ALCS walk-off
Remember…there is not pitcher for Soto,,,hit to everybody !!
@yankee clipper But the pic makes you instantly recognizable on here!
Clip- It was definitely a tongue in cheek “congrats” since most Yankees fans (here at least) seem to want him gone lol.
don’t worry he was actually signed to play third base
@Yankee
How do you manage a managers success?
KnicksFan: Depends on the team, really. But, I’d say that his tenure speaks to his successes or failures, too. His tenure in pinstripes has seen some of the highest payrolls with underachieving results. As an example, until last season he had never made it as far as Girardi did in his last season, plus Girardi had a championship already under his belt.
When the team brass repeatedly tells us that the team is a “championship team” and they can’t ever make it there (save for this past season), I’d say his tenure has largely been an underachieving one.
But, I’m sure people will differ with my opinion…. It’s just how I interpret his management.
Clip – I’ve got to admit, I stopped keeping as in depth tabs on you guys as the competition once we faded to relative irrelevance during the dark age aka bloom years. Now that we are climbing back, of course, I’d pay a bit more attention.
That said, and, knowing my memory gets fog sometimes, my step-dad before he passed was a huge Yankees fan – I’ve got his autographed Babe baseball in my top drawer these days, just like he kept it in his so he could see it every morning. But my recollection through his comments up till a year and a half ago seems to be injuries have been a much MUCH bigger problem in the Boone years than under Girardi or Torre. Is that accurate, or, just my mind playing tricks on me?
And if it is accurate, do you attribute it more to how the game has changed – hurler instead of pitchers, guys sold out for power swinging at fences every pitch vs working counts and playing for contact, etc – or do you think it’s the staff Boone has in place and how they’re managing players, workloads, practices etc differently under him than in the past?
Clip,
You see the news this morning?
Yankees are now allowing “Well groomed” beards lol
Bearded Cole is back
Well, I guess that’s….. something? I’d rather have a championship, but I guess a beard is just as important.
Two year extension covering the next two years… janky reporting. So he wasn’t under contract for this season prior to today?
“two-year contract extension covering the 2026-27 seasons”… it EXTENDS the current contract he was under for THIS year (2025)
Janky reading more like it
LOVE IT!
The clown show in the Bronx continues…,,,,,,
The real clown show in New York baseball is on the Queens side of the Triborough Bridge.
Must have been embarrassing to have a bunch of Clowns sweep you 4-0 by a combined score of 36-14 last year.
Aggregate counts only in a two-legged tie in soccer.
How many runs did the mighty Mets score in the World Series just completed?
Well they don’t play in the very weak American League but they did beat the Dodgers twice to the Yankees once.
ChuckyNJ is a delusional fan … pray for him
At lease going to the final for 7 seven years,,better than Boston
Wait wait wait… had to get some popcorn. Ok… I’m ready… Yankee fans… begin.
He was in no danger of being replaced, better to get this over with now and to focus on the season.
You’re welcome rest of the Al East
Cashman‘s puppet. I guess if the Yankees don’t make the World Series, they’re not interested in blaming Boone. I don’t understand the logic behind this and the timing
But they… made the World Series last year?
So confused. Didn’t the Yankees just participate in the 2024 World Series? Sooooo, the first thing Yankee fans want to do is replace the manager?
No one said replacing. You just got embarrassed in the World Series. You should be in the World Series every year if you’re the Yankees. But also if this is based off your World Series appearance, extend him after that not right before spring training of next year.
If you watched the Yankees regularly, then you would know that Boone is the worst manager in MLB and the players are regularly having to beat the other team and also their own manager to win games. The GM gives him 90 wins through roster construction, and all he has to do is not mess it up. He can’t do that. We just want any MLB level manager and not a TV analyst, but that is too much to ask for.
But they got embarrassed. So the timing makes no sense. Extend him after you made the World Series not right before spring training of the next season.
They will make the WS the problem will the Japoness Dogdgers
Was not 2009 the last worlds series win? Goal must be just make the playoffs now what would George think?
Hal craves stability in the dugout and the front office, unlike his father.
lmaoo
Thank God. Second best manager in baseball after Mark Kotsay. Now gotta extend Cashman.
And I thought the Department of Presidential Efficiency would have terminated him by now.
Those DOGE kids are all 19. They have never seen a baseball game because it takes too long.
hey i’m 14 and i watched every cubs game last year before 9 pm
You’re one in a million!
It’s kind of hard to justify letting Boone go after bringing them from second to last place the year before to the World Series last year. Sorry Yankees fans, but it could be worse—you could have Alex Cora.
Boone had nothing to do with that….that was Soto and a healthy Judge.. Anytime Boone tried to act like a good manager it turned out bad.
So when the team wins, it’s all because of the players. But if the team loses, it’s the manager’s fault. Got it….
Putting a few words in my mouth there @Jerry huh? That is not what I’m saying always happens, but there are situations where there are people who hinder a team. Absolutely the players are at fault at the end of the day. I just think that Boone handicaps the team with his poor decision making and is a net negative in a big way.
You mean Cora, the guy with a ring? Or 2 if you count as a player. The guy who coached the Sox to 108 wins? I watch Sox games, you probably don’t. I don’t question Cora all that much. He hasn’t been given a great roster in a while, so you do what you can.
Boone has been supplied with the best money can buy and you got one trip to a losing WS. Hell the Sox almost got there in ‘21 with a mediocre team. And the Yankees haven’t beaten the Sox in any playoffs since they got face f’d in ‘04, but that’s not all on Boone. I’ll take Cora till I see something better.
Rest of AL loves this.
Can’t win with a $300+ mil payroll… that’s a coach you wanna keep when $100 mil teams are embarrassing the Yankees.
There’s already a spendthrift ballclub in New York that doesn’t win.
FOR WHAT????????
-.-
The – There’s a simple explanation.
October 17, 2003 @ 12:09 AM EST
Joe Torre: “Hey Boonie … if you hit a homerun here, we will make sure after your playing days are over you will be wearing pinstripes for life”.
Aaron Boone: “Okay but I will want your job”.
Joe Torre: “Deal”.
I like Boone, I don’t take the same degree of issue with him as others do- but I do also wonder why the Yankees don’t move on/take a new approach.
I understand that ultimately, at the end of the day, when all is said and done, in the long run, when push comes to shove, the bottom line is…. a lot of teams try out a manager, the results are close but no cigar and despite how close it is, without the cigar, the team respectfully moves on.
I am genuinely shocked by how long Boone has been kept in the fold, even as I also acknowledge that no manager can magically make a player like Aaron Judge figure out how to hit consistently in the post season, etc.
I guess losing again in October this year deserves another contract. Why not wait until after the season. IMO I was still hoping Mattingly would come back. I guess that’s never happening
From a fan whose team was Mattingly’s first managerial job, trust me. You do not want Mattingly as your team’s manager….
Mattingly is my favorite player of all time and I agree with Jerry here. I don’t want him as Yankees manager. It’s a tough job and wouldn’t want to risk tarnishing his name in any way if he fails to bring a WS title.
I don’t think he is a great manager
They must think he is better than gambling on someone else
I still don’t know how he still keeps his job after the Game One mistake
Because he’s nothing more than a yes man to the FO. They got rid of Girardi because he’s not a yes man but a much better manager.
For whatever it is worth, I keep reading/hearing that basically the Steinbrenner’s/Yankees front office love their relationship both Boone. He speaks their language, is good at smoothing things over with them- he’s their guy. And they don’t view the team’s problems as being related to his management decisions or management style, but to outside factors that no manager could magically fix- like how they develop players below the major league level, or how someone like Judge seems to forget how to play baseball in the post season, or a pitcher falling apart at the worst possible time- they seem to think Boone is a victim of really bad luck and that no manager could come in with the pieces he has and make them fit.
Is that accurate? Or is that an excuse? We can’t know- also I get that they love the familiar and stick with managers for extended periods even with minimal post season success, because they love the stability of those Major League level manager and front office personnel to maintain consistency and familiarity over results?
Boone feels like a guy they personally love and he’s not completely useless as a manager and because of those two factors, they won’t get tough and move on from him.
They need to move on from Boone and Cashman but that would require Hal to have to do some work in replacing them.
I guess they weren’t watching when he brought Cortez in to pitch in the first game of the World Series, a guy who had not pitched in a month. That makes absolutely no sense and if it was just an anomaly, that’s one thing, but he does these kind of asinine things all the time that’s the problem. or they were not watching when the fifth inning of the fifth game unfolded when the team was clearly unraveling and baboon just sat there on his fat ass watching it didn’t even get up to go to the mountain and perhaps slowly came down that’s fundamentally elementary and any person with a quarter of a brain would’ve gotten up but not baboon. He just sits there, smiling like an idiot collecting his check.
Do you not understand how MLB teams are run in 2020’s? You are just as clueless as these irrational Yankee fans are….Pitching Nestor Cortez to Freddie Freeman in that situation, was already a planned decision by the Yankees Front office and their Analytics department a week before the World Series even began.. Aaron Boone was following an organizational plan that the New York Yankees franchise decided to do.. Boone has no say in making a change to their designed plan..There no longer is managing by the gut in this Era of MLB.. Stop blaming the Managers for decisions like this, Blame the Front Office and their Nerdy Analytics staff… That’s who are making these in game decisions nowadays.. Managers no longer have a say with in game decisions, lineup decisions, etc..All of it is planned out prior to games and if the Manager doesn’t follow that plan ,he’s gone….
@ smacnc
As many of you know, most of my remarks on this site are sarcastic, snide, & I hope humorous but I feel there is some truth to smacnc’s comment. How much the front office and/or the analytical department plays in these decisions is a great question. I have no idea if it’s as bad as you are suggesting but I do think you’re a lot closer to being right than you are to being wrong. Thanks for you comment
@NYCityRiddler
Not only is there some truth to it, it’s all truth to it….I do some scouting for MLB and I can tell you that just about every organization that has a dominant analytical front office, which is just about every MLB team now, the manager does not have full say to make any in game or lineup decisions..He has to check with his front office and Analytics staff first before going off the designed game plan.. And unless he has proven himself as a consistent winner before Analytics, like Bruce Bochy did, the manager’s opinion or in game gut feeling is refused by the rest of the group of “so called” evaluators… I don’t know why the insufferable Yankee fans continue to fight this and say everything lies on Boone’s shoulders..Every pre-game and in game decision, he is like a puppet, following a designed organizational plan.. Why do you think Joe Maddon, Joe Girardi, and Buck Showalter were all fired? They wanted more control as a manager and these Anaytical Front Offices were not going to give them that…Boone isn’t the problem….
@ smacnc
Hmmm, that’s very interesting & I appreciate your insight. So really it’s MLB dirty, little secret -along with who the hell knows what else-I wonder how people would react if/when this finally comes out as a fact, i.e. a current or former GM or manager would come forward & confirm this. Thanks again, pal!
There’s a lot of “trust me bro” on this site but this has to take the cake
exactly, how is that dude so credulous?, to just instantly buy that other persons BS
@ Party
Sure it could be all BS but I tend to think not. I believe what smacnc is saying may not be totally accurate but I think there is validity to it. It’s a new era.
I’m actually David Stearns and I’m telling you he’s bs
That’s funny. I’m actually Batman.
Honestly, they don’t know the definition of insanity.
That stupid quote is in every movie and TV show in the last 15 years
@PiazzaParty
And that stupid quote is NOT the actual definition of insanity.
Which is the same definition for the word: practice.
I don’t hate boone like other Yankee fans do, I’m not his biggest fan either, and I’ve found recently his in game managing, lineups, staff management to be very solid, I didn’t always feel that way and wanted him gone a couple of years ago but I’ve seen improvement. I think the one thing I hold him accountable for is the sloppy play, Cashman has done his part by improving the hustle, defense, baserunning, and baseball iq of the team. Removing Soto and gleyber defensively, moving judge and jazz back to their natural positions, adding belli and goldy, removing rizzo, who has been GG caliber but was awful last yr. I like the shape of the team and leaning into pitching and defense even more. If somehow these proven ballplayers lose their hustle and IQ then that’s clearly Boone being too soft. Gleyber and Soto were gonna be that way no matter who manages
He’s not an X and O type of manager. But even Tony LaRussa claimed that he believed his decisions really only changed the outcomes of games maybe three or four times a season.
If he gets along with management, manages to best advantage to their roster construction, and gets everyone pulling in the same direction, he’s probably hitting most of the benchmarks of a modern manager.
The 2024 Yankees were a very talented but flawed team. Those flaws culminated in a mistake on one pitch in game 1 and one inning in game 5.
Game one flipped on Torres’s mistake late in that game actually. Not doing a better job of blocking that ball thrown in from the outfield was a KILLER!! He just decided to flip his glove at the ball instead of getting his body behind it. YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION. That was the reason Dodgers tied the game up. We would never have had to force boone to make a decision if that didn’t happen.
End of the day, Boones unwillingness to hold his players accountable for lack of hustle, lapses in concentration and just covering first base was the cause of Yankees not winning. They won 1 game, gave 2 games away for free out of 5.
I believe The lack of accountability is why Soto got turned off.
Scott I agree with everything but Soto. He was always going to the highest bidder. Everything he’s ever said has shown that. If the Ham Fighters offered a dollar more than anyone in MLB, he’d be eating a lot of sushi now.
I’m 100% fine with it. I like Boone. No one is perfect. Who’s out there that you wanted anyway??? Boone was never getting fired with his record and he just took us to the World Series. His team loves him, so does the FO. I’ll never understand how someone who fights for his team like he does could get this much hate. Not every public facing job is based on your perception. He’s a private employee and the company decided his performance deserved more.
Congratulations, Booney! Let’s go all the way!
I’m a lifelong Yankees fan, and the reason I don’t like Boone is that he makes terrible decisions with the pitching staff and starting line-ups. You know, the two main things that MLB managers have to do. The other reason that I will never like Boone is that Don Mattingly should be our manager. It is shameful that a former Yankee captain is a bench coach in Toronto, while this no talent horses back side that is a fake Yankee struts around saying stupid stuff like” I really like that match up” after Cortes gives up a game ending grand slam in the WS. I would like my manager to say something like, “I’m sorry. That was not a good move and next time I will do better”. It isn’t about one decision. He does stupid crap like that all the time. That is just a glaring example in a huge moment that changed that entire series.
Boone has a better record as a manager than Mattingly so he’s done something right despite his “terrible” decisions. The amplification of a few bad decisions vs. a very good winning record is why it astounds me to no end how bad the hate is with some of y’all.
I’d like to see Mattingly one day, too, but merely for nostalgia and not because I think he’s a better manager. There’s no proof of that otherwise he wouldn’t be a bench coach right now.
I think that having the Yankees roster and resources as opposed to the Miami Marlins has more to do with their respective win loss records and not their managing abilities. I think that a braying donkey could have Boone’s win loss record with the Yankees resources.
Exactly what can you possibly rate Mattingly for then? It’s not like we’re privy to every game he managed to get to know the nuances of his style. Other than nostalgia from his playing days, there’s nothing fir me to latch onto. I can’t say I know he’s a good manager beyond his record and that he doesn’t currently have a management job. That to me always says alot.
Mattingly’s record with the Dodgers-
He had a 446–363 record[46] with the Dodgers, with a winning percentage of .551,[46] which was second-best in Los Angeles Dodgers history.[47] He finished with a postseason record of eight wins and 11 losses[46] and was the first manager in franchise history to guide the team to three straight postseason appearances.
@jarkraxm. You do realize that both the things you mentioned, pitching staff decisions and lineup decisions are made for Boone prior to the game in an organizational designed plan made by the Front Office and Analytics Staff.. When Boone removes a SP from a game or brings in a certain relief pitcher, he is not doing it on his own, he is following orders from his Front Office and Analytics staff, so in all reality, Brian Cashman and his Analytic Staff are the ones making the pitching decisions in game and before games.. Same thing goes with the lineups….Boonewrites out the lineup, but it has been discussed and decided by the Front Office and Analytics staff and then told to Boone…..You need to stop attributing blame to Boone for poor in game decisions, they are not coming from him, he’s removing the pitcher, but it’s not his alone decision, it’s a combined plan designed by the Front Office and Analytic Staff and Boone is just basically the messenger and then the communicator that has to talk to the media on why the team made that decision…
That’s not exactly how that works otherwise no manager would actually take the job. A manager, yes even Boone, is given tools like analytics to help him succeed during a game. It’s HIS decisions to make from there. It’s a chess match between managers in game. Otherwise there’d be no reason to actually hire or fire a manager. What would be the criteria? Only the most cynical would think otherwise.
The front office did not tell Boone to start Aaron Hicks 130 times or call down to bring Cortes into a WS game. If what you are saying is true, then it is even more shameful that a real Yankee like Don Mattingly isn’t our manager. If what you are saying is true, Boone is not necessary at all.
@Salzilla That’s how it used to work…In this current form of Analytic driven MLB, it’s exactly how it works…I work in MLB as a scout and see this with most all organizations..Why do you think Joe Maddon, Buck Showalter and other experienced winning managers have been fired? Because they want to manage the team “”old school” and still have control of lineup and in game decisions and not submit to the Front Office and Analytic staffs during the game…More and more younger “Yes men” managers are being hired and it will continue until MLB realizes that Nerdy Analytic Front Offices are tearing this game apart…The manager’s role has completely changed in this current game..Except it and stop blaming the manager for I poor in game decisions..It isn’t that version of MLB anymore…
@larkraxm If Boone goes, another “Yes Man” that fully buys into the Analytics for every type of decision will replace him…And you Yankee fans will then want to get rid of him immediately when they don’t win enough.. Cashman had the opportunity to hire Mattingly and chose not to because Mattingly was a Joe Torre protege and manages like an “Old School” manager..Cashman was threatened by Mattingly wanting more control with decision making and managing by his gut…The Yankee Front Office and Analytics Staff don’t want a manager like that…They want to be in charge…You guys need to start realizing this..The problem isn’t the managers, it’s the new 21st Century Analytical Front Offices that think every solution and strategy comes from a spreadsheet not from your gut…Until you get an Owner to hire a more Baseball minded Front Office, you are not going to see the typical Field Managers that you grew up with and are used to.. They have basically become Robots with uniforms!!
@larkraxm By the way, the Front Office and Analytics Staff of the New York Yankees had created a designed organizational plan a week before the World Series that said if Freddie Freeman comes up in a clutch situation with runners on base, bring in Nestor Cortez.. Boone was just following the designed plan and it backfired…
With all due respect, “scout”, I don’t have much reason to believe you. Apologies.
I’m not sure why analytics would tell you that when Tim Hill had been lights out in the previous two series. The analytics department wasn’t watching the games? I just don’t believe that to be true. If I’m Boone, instead of saying “I really like that match up” he should have said that “the organizational plan for a week was to bring in Cortes”. It isn’t just one decision. Boone’s legacy is one of poor management of the roster. If Boone is a “victim” of advanced metrics and analytics and his role is to stand up and say he thought it was a good idea, then I still can’t stand him. At some point, Boone made the call to the bullpen. You can’t just pass the buck for the calls he makes on the field. That is his job to be the one who makes those decisions and then answers for them. If he is in a situation where he doesn’t make those decisions, that isn’t my fault, and he still has to answer for them because that is his job.
We may not agree on Boone and Mattingly, but we definitely agree that there’s no way what this dude is saying is the truth. There’s no accounting for every in game situation in an organizational meeting beforehand, lol. Boone is given analytics to help, not to manage. The backlash from managers would have been earth shattering by now. Cashman has never played a game in his life, in game management is not a job he can do.
Well that’s on you then.. Continue to think Managers have a say in this present day MLB..They don’t..
@Salzilla Go listen to Michael Kay, the Voice of the New York Yankees who is inside the organization better than all you guys here and he is saying the same thing I am.. The game is officially managed these days, when it comes to lineup and in game decisions not by the Manager, but by the Front Office and Analytical staff doing all their spreadsheets..They give the Manager what should be done in certain hypothetical situations and if those situations arise during the game, Boone almost always to the tee follows that designed game plan..Stop kidding yourselves..Learn the real inside politics of how Baseball is run these days..
Here’s a serious-ish question for folks:
Years ago I knew a guy who was a baseball stat nerd, a guy great with numbers who learned during the original Moneyball era of the A’s, etc. and his opinion was that Managers Do Not Matter. By default, someone has to be the designated manager to be the final voice in pulling pitchers, putting in relievers, finalizing line ups etc but that they were at the mercy of the overall team make up. something basically out of their control and the ones who did way better also just had better options in terms of players on the roster and the ones who did worse just had worse options and it was rare to be able to say a manager came in and changed the culture of a team, changed the approach of various players to make them demonstrably better at their jobs, etc. and I wonder how true that is-
In other words, could Joe Schmoe Baseball Nerd be given the managerial job for virtually any professional level baseball roster and make some pretty obvious moves and a lot of their more ‘interesting’ or ‘creative’ approaches would be random gambling on pitcher/hitter match up’s, batting order optimization, etc. just as the same moves would be coming from an Aaron Boone or an Alex Cora, etc.?
In other words- does it truly matter/would it truly make a difference if it was somebody else?
That is exactly my argument friend and the answer is no it quite literally makes no difference who the manager is as long as he’s generally agreeable and doesn’t fight with the players but fights FOR the players. In today’s game any guy off the street with a spreadsheet handed to him from the front office could do this job. Go out there and yell at umpires once in a while on questionable strike/ball calls to fire up the dugout and fanbase, and be very diplomatic while providing half-answers to the media when they ask questions deliberately designed to create controversy for headlines.
The manager’s moves win or lose probably 8-10 games a season.
That’s significant when a team is fighting for a playoff spot.
Depends on how much a front office depends on analytics as opposed to a manager’s gut. The most successful guys use a combination of both.
One of the problems I had with David Bell was he had no guts, went with the third time through theory, lefty-lefty, righty-righty and other such things that limited the development of some of the young players beneath him.
A team that buys veterans don’t have to worry about the last part.
that’s 8 to 10 more losses for us then if this clown makes decisions.
It absolutely does matter. You look at any sport and when the manager or coach loses the clubhouse it goes to crap. The primary job of a manager is to get every player to buy in to their process, or the process that upper management wants implemented. And secondary, to get huge personalities and role players to understand how they fit in and accept those roles.
@TrillionaireTeamOperator You are just about the only on on here that sees the real honest truth about MLB managing these days.. Read what I said above in reply to @NYCCityRiddler and @DR2025….Any in game decision, you saw Boone do the last several seasons or especially last post season, was coming from up above in the Front Office and Analytical Staff, not from Boone… If you questioned why he didn’t go to Weaver sooner for example, or didn’t keep a reliever in long enough, that wasn’t him making those decisions, that was him following an organizational plan designed by the Front Office and Analytical staff prior to the game and if that plan isn’t adherently followed by the manager, his neck is on the line…. The Yankee Fans need to stop bellyaching about their Manager..He isn’t the one making the decisions and if Boone decides to go rogue, he will be replaced by another puppet who the Front Office and Analytical staff will be controlling…
Here’s the windup. Here’s the pitch……nah, I’m not gonna swing at it.
Just a suggestion but I would put his managerial link up instead of his player link when doing a story on him being extended as a manager.
Not another candidate out there that could handle the pressure of managing in NY. Not another team that wouldn’t take a .584 winning percentage behind their bench. Yankee fans are just delusional and entitled.
The “delusional and entitled” crowd follow the Mets.
Chucky there’s a few Mets fans that are upset about Yankees fans not being bothered about losing Soto. It also looks like the OP doesn’t know the definition of entitled.
set another person who obviously doesn’t follow the team. Anyone can do that with a $300 million payroll every year. If you watch the team one game a year, you’d see the asinine decisions this clown makes. That is the problem, but obviously you don’t know that. Next time you open your big mouth get yourself educated. Even if we have to wait for the rest of your lifetime for you to get some education. lol
Can he play 3b?
Yes he can and he can hit clutch home runs too
If expectations are for him to give you a strategic advantage and guide you to a WS victory, Boone isn’t your guy. If you are looking for a consistent winner that makes the playoffs and then has powerball odds to win it all, Boone is you man.
Congrats Yankees fans!!!
same to you bleacher creature. let’s unCork the champagne.
Lol
Yankees social media team already getting the “thank you fans” message ready for the fall
I don’t hate this guy nearly as much as most of the Yankees fandom. I don’t see Boone as a liability. The players love him and apparently that’s very valuable in today’s game. The hard-nosed, old school, disciplinarian is basically extinct. Nonetheless, most of us should know by now that most managers are slaves to the FO and their analytics. This is why questionable decisions like putting Cortes against Freeman in the 9th are made. Managers aren’t allowed to just feel the pulse of the game and make gut decisions anymore. Only the legacy managers like Bochy and Dusty are the last ones afforded that freedom. For that reason I really can’t come down too hard on Boone. If the numbers say that 7/10 times Cortes makes that out then the fact that he hasn’t pitched in forever doesn’t mean anything to the sabre-metric nerds. Frankly I don’t care who’s at the helm, at the end of the day the players have to perform and Judge dropping that ball and completely choking when it matters most is not Boones fault.
For a manager to be effective, the manager must be respected. Ausmus, as a rookie manager in Detroit, never was respected by the team, and lost the dugout. If Boone is respected by the players, he’s fit for the job. Players are expected to use all the data provided to refine their swing, and position themselves better in the field. Why is it that if a manager uses data to decide pinch hitters, or pitching changes, he is called a “Yes Man”?
I don’t like the yes man moniker, not because it’s not true as it certainly is, but because “no” was never an option. There is a real value to leaders who can call an audible when their wisdom and experience can foresee the future and negative results if they continue down the path upper management wants you to take. In baseball they tend to call it the feel or the pulse of the game. If Boone starts making more decisions based on pulse, even if he’s 100% correct, and even if he gets the positive results at that he would be out of the job. FO around the MLB treat the league like the PlayStation simulation ‘MLB The Show’. That will not change anytime soon.
I watched almost ALL 2024 Yankee games. Can’t tell you how many times Boone went to the BullPen either too late (after PCoach visited mound) to pull the pitcher after a hit / runs, or the relief pitcher blows it. Plus with his strategy & type rosters NYY hardly ever play small ball, hit&run etc. Boone was clearly out managed by Roberts. So he can be great with players but I question his effectiveness & 0 rings w such a payroll over these years!
A “Yes Man” gets extended. I’m shocked. LOL
How long do you think a “No Man” would be employed with any team?
I love how Yankee fans trash a manager with a career .584 winning percentage. That’s only 95 wins a season.
“Only”
Don’t extend the fan that sits behind Boone, he does not help.
I just came to see the Yankee fan base lose their collective minds.
Thanks for proving me right.
They like to lose !
Solid move Not sure why Yankees fans have a problem with this
Where’s the punch line ???
I love it. People whine about a manager who got his team to the World Series, but don’t mention a word about the abysmal choices for a third baseman. That’s the real problem with the Yankees.
So, I am stuck with baboon and his nonsensical ramblings for another few years?
Ba Boone…!
Not sure what else the Yanks were supposed to do here.
Savage!!!
The stash of compromising videos and pictures Cashman and Boone have on the Steinbrenners kids must fill the Library of Congress.
It seems like Aaron Boone is the new Dave Roberts. Nothing will be good enough for his fan base short of multiple championships.
the yankees will likely play an increased number of low-scoring games in 2025 which means managerial decisions will have more impact. boone needs to step up… to the phone to ask for instructions from the analytics team
baboon stepping up, that’s a good one. That’s an oxymoron a contradiction in terms. Don’t hold your breath on that one. We’ve been waiting seven years. He just steps down, not up and why should he step up, he’s been rewarded for his incompetence and stupidity by yet another contract he doesn’t deserve
How a guy who let Nestor pitch in Game 1 when all they needed was two outs to steal a home game from the Dodgers still has a job is beyond surprising.
hopefully that -1.5 doesn’t happen during the world series
Disappointing but not surprising.
Winning teams have lots of casual fans, those casuals want their manager fired any non-championship season. It comes with the territory
Race car sponsor to driver-I’m going to give you the keys to this car. It’s top 3 in the industry in terms of what we spend on it. You should be competitive every year as we’ll continue to improve it……Isn’t the expectation that this driver SHOULD be competitive year after year? And quite probably win “the big one”? There is no praise to be heaped here. We’ve seen the at times questionable in game decisions. It’s all about him being able to be controlled by Cashman. A puppet of sorts. Girardi wouldn’t be a puppet, but he won the team a World Series. When you spend the money the Yankees do, World Series titles should happen. Boone is driving a very expensive car and he’s mediocre at it.
i’m not surprised, we knew this was coming. But it just demonstrates that the Yankees continue to reward mediocrity and incompetence. And we will never with a title while baboon and Cashman are here. It is quite clear. And despite their words, they don’t care about winning. It doesn’t even bother them how they were humiliated and trashed by the Dodgers last year. They only care about profits.
Back to back for the Dodgers!
For the record Girardi was fired for much less.
Girardi wasn’t fired.
It would be fun to see Boone and Roberts traded for each other. Would either team get better?
Dave Roberts just won a World Series with 3? 2? healthy starting pitchers. Roberts has learned from his mistakes, unlike Boone, who still gets burned for doing things he did as a rookie manager.
here’s a quote from dave yesterday. “Mookie wants to be the best player in baseball, and I don’t see why he wouldn’t want that,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “I think if you play shortstop, with his bat, that gives him a better chance.”
Can he play third base? Lord knows he can’t manage.
Not too happy 0 rings since WS ‘09 w Girardi. I would expect Hal S to grow a pair and if ‘25 doesn’t bring a return to WS, Cashman is fired. A new GM brings in his Mgr choice and the weak roster position slots get resolved, let go the revolving less than mediocre guys, w $$ FA signings (1st, 3rd, DH) and trades. then maybe we get a WS champ.
once again I am impressed that all these high paid pro GM and managers in this forum thread actually have the free time to comment on this. Their hind sight as usual is 20/20
Hindsight? I don’t know a single Yankees fan who thought Boone was a good hire from day one. Nobody was impressed with hiring an ESPN announcer.
yes hindsight. as the tremendous ability many of the arm chair experts have to boast they would have done it differently AFTER the event. but never a positive word. It must be tough to live that way
Should have used Boone’s money toward Soto and hired a manager off the street. I’m sure one of you guys could do as well for a few hundred grand.
Think about this: If there was a draft for managers, both active and those in search of a team, say 40+ in total, what number would the baboon be drafted? For those of you telling us he’s better than we think or good, then this would imply top ten. In reality, the bumbling idiot, who seems only good at getting himself thrown out of games, would draft far to the bottom.
As a Red Sox fan, I’m glad I don’t have to dislike Boone just because he’s the Yankee’s manager. I can also dislike him for 2003.
Yankees fans: “THE TEAM WON THE PENNANT DESPITE BOONE BEING MANAGER HE DOESNT AFFECT HOW THEY PLAY!”
Also Yankees fans: “WAAAAAHHH WHY ARE THEY EXTENDING BOONE HE LITERALLY LOST THEM GAMES WAAAAHHH”
Which is it, ya dorks?
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?
More futile with a stacked roster in the postseason Kyle Shanahan or Aaron Boone?
Somebody has to be useless enough to get tossed and not affect the outcome of the game……
Yankees fans must absolutely love this.
Thank you baby Jesus. “Redsox fan”
He has a better career winning % than John McGraw. Yet all we read on this bastion of baseball Brahmans is negative nonsense. Is it because he has not yet won a WS? Of course. But, throwing the baby out with the bathwater makes zero sense. Boone is an excellent manager. There, I said it. Bring on the brickbats.
The Yankees lack of transparency hurts him. His questionable in-game calls hurt him, especially during the postseason. I thought he actually had a very good playoffs this year until the famous Game 1 decision, and it spiraled from there. He has a tendency to overmanage in big spots.
My personal view is that he also plays favorites rather than allowing pure competition for playing time, which really bothers me. His choices for assistant coaches, especially base coaches have been consistently awful (Matt Blake is a Cashman hire).
He’s an okay manager with blind spots. He wouldn’t have the same winning percentage on say… the Pirates.
I wonder what Boone earns. I assume in the $3M-$4.5M per season range.
Not sure what a lot yankee fans have against Boone. The guy has done a stellar job in the Bronx. He has over 600 wins to his name already in 7 years and 22 in the post season. He has led the Yankees to the post season in 6 of his 7 years and will most definitely make it 7/8. For a guy averaging his club at 95 wins per year Yankee fans need to pump the brakes. Boone has managed injuries very well and for those blaming him for the WS, stop. Let’s be real here Boone is the manager, he wasn’t the fielders out there playing poor defense. Also for those out there saying it’s WS win or bust! It’s not , stop it lol. You haven’t won in 15 years and we hear that every year. Sorry baseball has changed a lot since the yanks reeled off 4 championships in 5 years. That’s not happening again. Boone is the right guy for the job, period.
Hey so I dont know if you know this but its pretty easy to rack up regular season wins when you have a 300MM team on the field every year. Boone gets out managed constantly in the playoffs. He literally put a pitcher who has never done relief work and hasnt pitched for over a month in the world series with Ohtani, Betts, and Freddie Freeman due up and the game on the line. Not to mention all of the young prospects that had great seasons under Girardi almost immediately flamed out under Boone with exception of Aaron Judge.
Hes not the right guy for the job. Hes just a Yes Man for the front office. He literally does nothing and when he has to do something he makes the worst pitching change decision youve ever seen. Pointing to regular season wins doesnt prove anything when they have a top 3 payroll every year. You could put me in there and have similar results lol
I highly doubt that you would have the same results, and that probably goes for just about everyone here. It’s very easy to sit there and critique from behind your computer. Sure they have a 300 million dollar payroll, yes but that does not equate to a WS title, just look at baseball history. The Dodgers of 2024 yes won by spending a ton. But they were an outlier. Thanks for telling me things that the whole world knows already. Spending a ton does not even always equate too a playoff appearance. There are plenty of teams over the years with large payrolls that don’t win it all or even make the playoffs or win a division. The Yankees had a 280 million dollar payroll in 2023 and missed the playoffs. Whether you or anyone else likes it or not baseball has changed immensely. As stated before the Yankees state that they are win a WS or bust. I do not believe that at all or they wouldnt be in a 15 year drought. I mean yes they want to win but baseball is a business now. Also these teams that are assembled are not Georges teams, Hal is all about staying under a certain amount of money. Making money is all anyone cares about. It’s sad but true.
The Yankees would have won at least 111 regular season games if Boone hadn’t kept running Clay Holmes out there when it was obvious the guy was terrified. Decisions like that are why Juan Soto went to the Mets.
lol Soto is greedy. He went with the most money and AAV. He already has a ring. That’s not important to him. He had a better shot to win with the yanks.
I’m just here for the Yankees fans meltdown!
L A M E
what a tragedy
Just give him a lifetime contract. He is about as mediocre as they come
I agree, mediocre about sums it up. He doesn’t strike me as much of a leader, not a guy I think I would want to follow. To me he has always looked like a child chomping away in the dugout blowing bubblegum bubbles. But then sometimes managers get too much credit or too much blame. He seems to navigate the New York media fairly well, or at least enjoy the abuse so that in itself is a requirement.
If they extend him too much, he’ll need new pants…
Well, if you take apart legend, you get leg end.
Forever remembered for Oscar winning performance in chronicles of laz Diaz
So the Yankees and Red Sox will have worthless managers for the foreseeable future. Haha
BREAKING NEWS:
Yankees officially announced through Steinbrenner’s official release that they will bd allowing “well groomed beards” etc so the facial hair policy is over!!!
I wonder how this will impact who signs with them. Or how the team will look just this year.
Rip Van Winkle at first, Dusty Hill at second, Abe Lincoln at shortstop and Santa Claus at third.
First extend Boone. Now well groomed beards!!!! Wth?
Boone is a yes man, doesn’t have an original thought, does what he’s told. Cashman is the one that needs to go, imo.
What has changed now? He wasn’t good enough to get extended after the season, and it’s not like he’s managed a game since the World Series. He was that good at pitcher fielding practice that he gets extended for two years now?
Of the 360 mlb mangers listed on baseball reference.com Aaron Boone has the 10th highest all time winning percentage.
He just went to the WS.
I guess those facts might be part of the reason for a new contract?
He no Casey Stengel poor man’s Houk
Pop quiz !
name 7 of close to 50 managers in the Mlb HOF with LOWER winning percentages than Boone.
John McGrath
Bobby Cox
Miller Huggins
Earl Weaver
Sparky Andersson
Whitey Ford
Joe Torre
Don Zimmer Leo Daroche
Aaron Franklin (F’in) Boone, cuz he’s money?
I have deep concern for all my Yankee friends and their well being.
With all of his success to date and with Craig Counsel & Terry Francona making $8M+, and Cora just below that, this seems like a pretty low salary for Aaron Boone. He manages in one of the largest and toughest markets in MLB and in front of a tough fan base too. He handles the media and the overall Yankees circus extremely well.
I was expecting 2/$15M and not 2/$10.5M. Maybe he has endorsement deals to make more money but at some point he has to ask himself is the juice worth the squeeze?
Made it to the World Series so that makes sense. I know there is a portion of the Yankee fan base that doesn’t like him. There is more to managing than the lineup card and pitching changes. In 23 the Padres were loaded with stars and fell flat on their face. I still blame Bob Melvin mostly but he had to deal with stuff like Hader only wanting to pitch when he felt like it not when the team needed him.
Good on Boone I think the Yankees have a good one.
Can’t wait to see Boone sitting in the dugout 10 years from now sporting his Steinbrenner approved beard after he has become a World Series winning manager a few times as well as the primary spokesperson for all “Just For Men hair and beard products”
Happy for Boone he’s a good baseball man. I do sometimes wonder if he uses his gut or data more though