Let The Exodus Begin

[Halldan1]

Aaron Boone hasn’t learned from his Yankees mistakes​

By Ian O'Connor

Aaron Boone hasn’t learned from his Yankees mistakes

If an open draft of current major league managers were held today, Aaron Boone might not even be a top-10 overall pick.

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[TheHall87]

It's not World Series or fail, but you have to win one once in a while. There are 22-year-olds who have seen the Yankees win one World Series. With their resources, that's not excellence at all.

I'm not a Yankees fan, so I won't go on here about how titles are their birthright. I think they've wrung more than their fair share from all of that nonsense. But making money is one thing -- and they will certainly continue to do that -- and winning titles is another. And in this business, the customers need one every so often to sustain hope and justify their continued engagement with a business that is predicated on swindling them at every turn. Fans will put up with almost anything, but they need to believe the team is trying to win.

The thing is baseball is a different sport than it was 22 years and drastically different than it was when the Yankees were the dominant team in the game by a fair amount. That was a sport with 16 or 20 teams, no draft, no free agency and no playoffs. It is immeasurably more difficult to win a World Series today (never mind multiple WS) than it once was.

The same generally applies in the NBA, NFL and NHL. The dynasties of days gone by may be good teams year in and year out but the Celtics, Packers and Canadiens are no longer filling trophy cases as they once did.

 

[Piratz]

Ho-hum. Boone had one of the worst postseasons you could have.

 

[Section112]

Cashman prefers a guy who will play the puppet role like Boone.

 

[Halldan1]

Mariano Rivera would fire Aaron Boone as Yankees manager

The GOAT has chosen a goat for the Yankees’ postseason struggles.

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Mariano Rivera would fire Aaron Boone as Yankees manager​

By Ryan Glasspiegel

The GOAT has chosen a goat for the Yankees’ postseason struggles.

Mariano Rivera said that if he were the decision-maker, Aaron Boone would not return as manager of the Bombers next season.

“If I’m the owner, Aaron Boone wouldn’t stay,” Rivera said Wednesday at the Sports Forum of the Panamanian Association of Business Executives. “When things don’t come out the way we want them to all of the fault goes on the manager and somebody has to pay the price and we won’t put that on the players…”

Rivera’s quotes, given in Spanish and translated by SNY, came before it was indicated the Yankees are planning to bring Boone back in 2023.

“As far as Boone’s concerned, we just signed him [to an extension last offseason] and for all the same reasons I listed a year ago, I believe he is a very good manager,’’ owner Hal Steinbrenner told the Associated Press at the team’s player development complex in Tampa. “I don’t see a change there.

Frustration has been bubbling amongst Yankees fans that the team cannot advance past the Astros, and in the latest circumstance got swept out of the 2022 ALCS. Longtime Yankees play-by-play broadcaster Michael Kay eviscerated Boone for pulling Gerrit Cole in Game 3.

Rivera, a teammate of Boone on the 2003 World Series runner-up Bombers, is one of the most decorated MLB players of all-time. He pitched in pinstripes from 1995 through 2013, won five World Series rings and accumulated 652 regular season saves. He was a 13-time All-Star and in 2019 became the first player in history to gain unanimous election to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

With a 2.21 ERA, he was one of the greatest regular season pitchers ever — and he got even better in the playoffs, with a 0.70 career postseason ERA.

 

[hallgrad80]

If Hal is the businessman he is portrayed to be then we can reasonably expect no change in running the organization with Cashman as the GM and Boone as the manager until the bottom line financial results start taking meaningful hits with reduced attendance leading the way. That could be accelerated if the on field results decline and playoff success remains elusive and the franchise has no star players to generate fan interest as we saw with Judge this year.

 

[SHUHoopsFan]

If Hal is the businessman he is portrayed to be then we can reasonably expect no change in running the organization with Cashman as the GM and Boone as the manager until the bottom line financial results start taking meaningful hits with reduced attendance leading the way. That could be accelerated if the on field results decline and playoff success remains elusive and the franchise has no star players to generate fan interest as we saw with Judge this year.

Agree 100%. The one thing I don't think the yanks will lack is a star on the team. They're always going to be in the free agency game for the Harpers, Betts, and Judges of baseball. They'll always have a star. Hal the business man isn't going to put a product out for the consumer where the biggest star is 34 year old DJ LeMathieu or a past his prime Giancarlo Stanton.