Brian Cashman’s future with the Yankees is yet to be determined — though the general manager isn’t expected to go anywhere — but Hal Steinbrenner said Wednesday Aaron Boone would return as manager.
“As far as Boone is concerned, we just signed him [to an extension last offseason] and for all the same reasons that I listed a year ago, I think he’s a very good manager,” Steinbrenner told The Associated Press at the team’s player development complex in Tampa. “I don’t see any change there.”
Boone’s future was questioned by some after a tough second half and a four-game ALCS sweep by the Astros.
It seemed a change was unlikely after Boone was given a three-year extension following last year’s disappointing regular season and exited in a wild card loss to the Red Sox – especially after the team won its first AL East title since 2019 this year and ended up in a World Series series.
Cashman, the team’s general manager since 1998, is at the end of his last five-year contract and there are no signs that Steinbrenner is ready to leave Cashman, who has said he would like to be back.
But Steinbrenner, who met Cashman at the stadium on Monday, said no new contract has been agreed.
“We haven’t talked about anything yet,” Steinbrenner told the AP. “[Cashman] and I had some preliminary conversations [about the offseason].”
Although they haven’t appeared in a World Series since their last title in 2009, the Yankees have reached the playoffs six years in a row.
And Boone is the first manager in MLB history to lead a team to the playoffs in his first five years at the helm.
In the playoffs, Boone is 14-17.
He drew criticism in the most recent playoffs when he called on Clarke Schmidt over Clay Holmes in ALDS Game 3 against Cleveland, when Boone later revealed he had no no plans to use Holmes, who was coming off a strained shoulder that landed him on the IL late in the regular season.
One of the reasons Boone was hired to replace Joe Girardi after the 2017 season was because of his communication skills and Holmes was left in the dark about his lack of availability and publicly contradicted Boone at the club. post-game.
The two ended up on the same page later that night, but it was a surprising blunder by the organization.
Then in Game 3 of the ALCS, with the Yankees poised to lose the third straight game to the Astros, Boone fired Gerrit Cole with the bases loaded and no one on top of the sixth and went to Lou Trivino at the Jonathan’s place. Loaisiga, Holmes or even Wandy Peralta – the top three relievers in the bullpen.
Trivino allowed all three legacy runners to score, and the Yankees lost three games.
And in Game 4, after worrying about Nestor Cortes’ slowing speed and lingering groin injury, Boone went to the mound with coach Tim Lentych and decided to keep Cortes in the game with a three-point lead.
Cortes allowed a game-tying three-run homer to Jeremy Pena, Cortes was called out, and the Yankees lost the game and the series.
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