New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone’s future will be discussed this coming weekend, general manager Brian Cashman said.
The skipper’s contract includes an option for the 2025 season, but the veteran GM added that conversations about a new deal are also possible. Boone, having just completed his seventh season as Yankees manager, signed a three-year extension in 2021.
“I’m a big Aaron Boone fan,” Cashman said at the MLB GM meetings in San Antonio (h/t ESPN). “I think he’s a great manager, and I think we’re lucky to have him.”
His job security has been a hot topic in recent years largely because he has not been able to end the franchise’s now-15-year championship drought, which is one of the longest dry spells the Yankees have experienced since having to wait 21 seasons from their establishment for their first title in 1923.
Last year, the Yankees put together their worst season since 1992 by going 82-80 and missing the playoffs for the first time in six years. Boone and his club rebounded to win the American League pennant this season but were outclassed in five games by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series.
Boone’s decision-making fell under fire once more during the Fall Classic, specifically in Game 1 when he called on southpaw starter Nestor Cortes, who had not pitched in five weeks, in the 10th inning to try and save a one-run lead. He allowed the first-ever walk-off grand slam in World Series history to Freddie Freeman.
Cashman, however, backed Boone’s decision and his showing in the World Series, which only further suggests that the 51-year-old is not going anywhere.
“The manager’s job is so impossible,” Cashman said. “So you can play the game of second-guessing because you’re either going to make a move and it’ll be right, you make a move, and it’ll be wrong and then have at it, right? So I think he’s a really, really good manager. I think that we’re lucky to have him. He’s done a great job.”
