November 11, 2026

187 thoughts on “Yankees.com: Boone to return as Yankees manager in ’27, final year of his contract (source)”

  1. In 9 seasons with the Yankees the team is 27-30 in playoff games and in 24/25/26 the team went out with barely a whimper.

    I guess Hal wasn’t too upset.

    1. Odd that it doesn’t at least bother Hal that he has to spend so much more than all the other teams in his division to achieve that same level of mediocrity half the other teams can boast of.

  2. Brian Cashman Says He’s Finalizing Yankees Contract Extension, ‘We’re Locked and Loaded’

    And in related news the CEO of Pets.com has agreed to stay on with a 20% pay hike.

    1. The Yankees FO is locked, loaded, and aimed at their own foot, point blank.
      Don’t let anyone say they’re not flexible.

  3. ” The only solace we have is that it is very likely that they will part ways with Boone if they don’t win the American League pennant next season (I know people would like to say he needs to win the World Series, but come on, that’s obviously not going to be their limit for bringing Boone back. A pennant would do).”
    –
    I see zero basis for this statement. Is there something I’m missing? I firmly believe that if they miss the playoffs entirely next season, that’ll be no threat to Boone’s next contract. They love their status quo, they feel no reason to limit the virtue of loyalty by connecting it to something as transient as performance. Maybe if they won only 37 games next year they’d finally start to reconsider. Even then, you couldn’t be certain.

    1. It’ll be a shortened season, probably won’t even start till June or July, so 37 games would be acceptable.

  6. Aaron Boone: “I think I’m good at my job. I think we have a lot of the right people in the building, but at the end of the day, a championship with me at the helm, ultimately that’s what has to happen … like, that’s why I’m doing this.”

    1. Listen to how he says that.
      Nobody tell him that there are managers who win MULTIPLE championships.
      In a row, even.
      But even he isn’t delusional enough to see that happening with him. Doesn’t even OCCUR to him.

  7. “Cash is great every season,” Steinbrenner said via video call from George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Fla. “I mean, I think the roster he put together, the team that we rolled out of spring training with, was as good as any in baseball, in my opinion.

    “We had a lot of bumps and bruises along the way, but the team was fantastic. And I thought it was a world championship team.
    “Talking about this season, I thought Boone managed a good season, especially with the pitching staff. We had a lot of additions and subtractions in the rotation throughout the course of the season. Our bullpen was absolutely exhausted by the end of the season. He got through all that and he got us to the playoffs.”

    Steinbrenner then laid the blame on his players.

    https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7708753/2026/10/21/yankees-hal-steinbrenner-defends-cashman-boone/?unlocked_article_code=1.KVE.jOAi.ZdfxjyfjBhrn&source=emp_shared_article&smid=url-share-ta

    1. Yankees were very unlucky in the way random players like MacMahon and Grisham got assigned to the team by Manfred.

    2. Unbelievable.
      “Seated behind a table and a microphone a thousand miles away from the Bronx [AND REALITY AS WE KNOW IT], New York Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner…”

    3. It wasn’t a whimper season.
      But what it surely was – is exactly what the Dodgers said. It was a team that didn’t realize the potential of the players’ talent because they were woefully, painfully, obviously unprepared to play professional baseball. The sheer talent almost overcame that.
      To slightly change what Hal said, it is squarely on the shoulders of Boone that the fault lies.

    4. I don’t think you can complain too much about shitting it up in the World Series, as it means you made the World Series. 2024 is definitely a highlight season overall. They just need to actually WIN another one.

    5. “I don’t think you can complain too much about shitting it up in the World Series.”
      Brian, it’s like you don’t even KNOW this place!

    6. But – whatever your ultimate assessment of 2024, which doesn’t matter so much – I stand by the idea.
      On the whole, they have a ton of talent.
      On the whole, they are shockingly unprepared to play professional baseball.
      If they HAD been prepared, they’d have won a WS. And very likely more than one.

  9. Either Hal is a rube or thinks we’re rubes. Or both.
    In other news Wells had a concussion so bad he couldn’t see pitches when batting. Crackhead medical staff ftw

    1. Hal, and all of them, are prisoners of a delusional echo-chamber organizational culture. He believes what he says, largely because he hears it repeated to him by all the people around him.

  13. I think it IS worth pointing out that the Mets went out and did what people have been asking the Yankees to do and replace Cashman with one of the “best” executives out there. The Mets got David Stearns, the guy behind this current World Series Brewers team, and he’s been terrible with the Mets.

    1. Is it, though, Brian? This was once a statistics-oriented site, and pointing out what happens to the Mets right now is to suggest the enormous significance of a sample size of one, and cherry-picked sample, at that.
      Yes, it’s certainly possible to make changes and have them work out badly, or to just screw them up. Neither of those things is absolutely excluded from the realm of possibility, no one suggested that they were.
      But if, instead of choosing one isolated case, you look at all the teams that succeed… how many of them leave the entire governing structure in place when it fails to win over a long stretch of time – unless your manager’s name is Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy and he happens to own the team? My guess is that successful teams continually adjust. Sometimes, as with these Mets, it goes sour. But at least they’re trying! And that leads to success more often than, you know – not trying.

    2. Stearns was probably not a great hire for the Mets in the way they expected. They gave him a blank checkbook and asked him revamp the team AND win now. He made a lot of high profile gambles on older and/or otherwise veteran players on the current team, but he also reorganized the player development and scouting staff, and arguably has the No. 1 minor league system in baseball. And Matt Arnold, back-to-back MLB executive of the year, also has had a lot to do with this current 2026 Brewers team.

      The Yankees under Cashman would never make some of the moves Stearns or Arnold have done to turn the Brewers into a juggernaut. They have certainly had some prospects work out for them spectacularly (Chourio and Miz in particular) but so have the Yankees in Rice and Schlittler. The Brewers however are way more prone to moving lame duck FAs for maximum returns while the Yankees and Cashman hang on to guys way too long and get nothing in return typically. I would probably hire either one over Cashman.

      And a lot of that is that this is Cashman’s organization. 100% from top to bottom. He’s been in charge for so long that he has hires who have since retired. The organizational philosophy is stale and needs a reboot.

  14. Kirschner Mentioned in here that there is a big disparity between how receptive the Yankees’ pitchers are with analytics compared to their hitters.

    Been talking about this for a while on @pamsson’s and my podcast: patreon.com/cw/TheViewsfro…

    1. Fascinating. And also really pathetic.

      I think it really trickles down from Judge. He is a naturally talented hitter, so their various hitting coaches don’t affect HIM that much, and so he doesn’t care about any of it, but as a result, it seems like that influence affects his lesser teammates.

      Judge just always sounds like a dumb guy. Hiding his injury was a dumb move. Insisting on DJ LeMahieu remaining with the team in 2023 was dumb. Everything the guy says sounds so dumb.

  15. Here’s a major issue. There were only 32 batters in the Majors this season who got on base at a .360 clip or better. Only ONE hitter got on base at a .400 clip, and only two got on at a .390 or better clip.

    The Yankees clearly need more OBP. They were a HORRENDOUS .311 team OBP. This is a team that long made OBP a big part of what they did, and it WORKED.

    But the free agents out there aren’t OBP guys. The exceptions are Bauers (obviously no one wants a Bauers reunion) and two outfielders (Arozerana and Suzuki) who likely don’t have a role on this squad with Judge, Belli, and Jones in the outfield.

    Ty France also technically fits, but come on, we all know that’s fluky as fuck, and he’s just another first baseman, anyways.

    The highest OBP from a free agent 2B or 3B is Arraez at .345, which isn’t even that great.

    But fuck, it’d have been the third-highest OBP on the Yankees last season!

    So I think they really should try to add Arraez to this squad.

    Arraez 2B .345 OBP
    Rice 1B .363 OBP
    Judge RF .360 OBP (playing injured for a MONTH)
    Belli LF .338 OBP

    That opening to the lineup gives you a real chance to score some runs. If they have to deal Garcia Jr. elsewhere to make room for Arraez (who is, of course, another lefthanded hitter), then so be it. They didn’t give up anything of note for him.

    Arraez also brings elite contact to the team. I think contact is overrated in general, but I think there’s something to be said for having at least one elite contact guy on the team. The 1990s Yankees were FILLED with elite contact guys who were good at other things, too (Jeter, Bernie, and O’Neill to name the three biggest examples). That is the perfect thing to have, of course, but fuck, at least have ONE elite contact hitter on the team!

    1. Interesting. I wonder whether getting one guy is how you compensate for a non-OBP team. As opposed to reconceiving the offense as a whole, something that better describes the team’s change FROM an OBP-focused team to what it is right now. Throwing one decent-OBP guy onto a team that lacks that talent from top do bottom might really do very little…. in fact, without Garcia (who, admittedly, I really like), it might be worse.
      But it might be better, I’m not arguing either side, just thinking about it. Maybe someone here knows studies have something to say about this kind of thing?

    2. I think Cashman has wanted high OBP guys, he just couldn’t get them. He tried to trade for Brian Reynolds in 2023 (and I think he even had a deal done, but Reynolds instead agreed on a long-term deal with Pittsburgh to keep them from trading him, so they did that instead). He tried to trade for Yandy in 2024. LeMahieu WAS a high on-base guy before the injuries took him. Judge, of course, is one of the highest OBP guys in the league (and a healthy Judge would have kept the Yankees from having such a pathetic team OBP).

      OBP wasn’t available, but SLG was, so he got Garcia.

    3. Yes, sure, that’s plausible. Maybe he WANTED a different team than he was able to construct. Of course, in this biz, failure is failure, he could have traded and wheeled and dealed and done what was necessary if he has a vision he was intent on achieving..
      But either way, that’s just about what he may or may not have wanted, and that doesn’t bear much upon the question of whether “getting a guy” (or two) and “reconfiguring the team” are equivalent (or not equivalent, again, I’m not sure what the right answer is).

    4. I don’t see Garcia as a good fit. His defense at 2B is horrendous and I don’t want Rice to be an everyday DH. And then the Iceman (Stanton) comets, maybe.

    1. i feel like it’s more like having the orchestra play on the deck than rearranging the chairs.

  19. CC said recently that retired Yankees used to hang out in the clubhouse and even travel with the team – Ron Guidry, Reggie Jackson, Willie Randolph (even when he wasn’t on the coaching staff) – and they would keep the current players in line and focused. And now it’s only Andy Pettitte who seems available in that capacity. Not Jeter nor Posada nor Gardner. So the Yankees pitchers are getting at least some of that old-fashioned accountability, but the position players aren’t. And since Gardner retired they’re not getting it in the clubhouse either.

    On that note, I agree with Brian that Judge is one source of the dysfunction. He’s not a total idiot – he’s smarter at hitting than most of his current teammates, though I could only dream what Bernie might have done with Judge’s strength – but people who are insanely effective at one thing don’t always realize that they’re bad at other things. (Actors and public policy; athletes and public policy; businessmen and public policy; ideologues and clinical medicine.) Meanwhile, in our society, people with money are somehow trusted as if they’re experts at everything. So while it’s not surprising that Judge is not always a reliable source on his health – a competitor wants to play! – it’s frustrating that the Yankees didn’t catch on to his underperformance in early May, and didn’t feel like they could push back on the no-rehab nonsense in September.

    The bigger issue I have with Judge is that his comments about teammates and roster construction have often felt like he’s just looking to keep a team of guys who would be his bros anyway (Verdugo, Rizzo, LeMahieu, Volpe) and not a team where the focus is on winning ballgames. Judge frankly reminds me of a union president who protects individual members from accountability no matter how incompetent and/or dangerous. (I’ve seen it from teacher’s unions, police unions, players’ unions, political parties, clergy…). The loyalty is to the members as people and not to professional principles, nor to the cause of their work, nor to the public good. In that worldview, everyone in Judge’s circle is a good person and nobody can do anything to get fired. Heck, get an extreme DUI and he’ll marry you.

    1. I think that’s entirely right.
      Add to that the kind of (perfectly understandable) psychology where players like the managers who are easiest on them and most supportive, which is not equal to the set of managers who are better at winning baseball games.
      That’s why it’s not supposed to be the players’ job to make those decisions.

  20. Luis Garcia Jr. could get run at 2B next year, according to manager Aaron Boone.

    Garcia has played 4,189 innings at 2B in his MLB career with -29 DRS and -18 OAA.

    He’s a career 103 OPS+ who had a monster 2/3 of a season for Washington before batting Toni’s norm in the last 1/3. I think about moving him.

    1. I would trade him, too, if they think they can get Arraez. But I’ll admit, I can see the appeal of Garcia at second if they think he can improve defensively at all. He looked so good at first, I don’t know why he couldn’t play second at ALL!

    2. He looked simply outstanding at first. Unlike Rice, or anyone else they have except Goldschmidt.
      Although I refuse to believe that Rice can’t practice himself into being a good 1B.

    3. Maybe 3b which he’s never played. Seems like there a few 1B/3B combos we’ve seen, Todd Frazier, Chase Headley, Dick Allen,for instance. Maybe he can play the outfield in a platoon with Ramos.

  21. Also concerning are CC’s comments about the team practicing on Steinbrenner Field instead of the Trop during the ALDS. If I’m understanding that correctly, they were practicing on grass but playing the game on turf. No wonder why McMahon and Lombard missed those grounders in Game 2 – did they not get enough reps on the actual field to learn how the ball would spin? Why would you not make your practice as close to the actual game situation as possible? It’s like pretending the Trajekt machine at Steinbrenner Field is a complete substitute for live pitching on the game field. It might show you the movement of the pitches, but you don’t have the same view and environment that you’ll have in the game. You also need to practice the same activity (facing human pitching) in the same space. Practice is always more effective in the performance environment. It’s why musicians rehearse in the hall, it’s why clinicians run mock codes in actual (if vacant) patient rooms. Baseball players should know that too. If you’re ready for the game situation, it’s because you’ve practiced the exact same situation.

    3. i don’t know why you’re concerned. we have a top manager and he’d be signed in a second by another team if they let him go.

    5. UJD, since I think you were asking – in our mock codes we use mannequins of varying sizes (ranging from infant to full-grown). Some aspects of their function are mechanical – airways are anatomically “normal” for practicing intubation – and they show some chest rise when we ventilate them properly (using bag-valve-mask or ET tube). Other aspects are electronic – they sense when we’re doing compressions (I’m not sure if the sensors are responding to pressure or to motion), and they have LED’s that give feedback on our technique (depth, timing). They make “breath sounds” and have “pulses” in certain places and these features are supposed to be programmable based on the scenario; but they’re not particularly realistic. Even so, a major purpose of the mock code is to practice teamwork/communication and thinking-on-the-fly – as much as it is to practice the mechanics of CPR or intubation. In fact, roughly half the time the mock code scenario doesn’t require a cardiopulmonary intervention, because we need to practice and be ready for other kinds of emergency too.

    6. Not sure if the Yankees medical staff use mannequins for their simulations, but I know they have access to plenty of dummies.

      Maybe they should be practicing the Heimlich.

  23. I’m no Cash fanboy, but could Cash’s teams have won with not just neutral, but actually good preparation instead of bad, with major league player support that not only didn’t actually reverse minor league development, but actually improved upon it, with in game decisions that didn’t turn wins into losses on a regular basis – in other words, with a good manager instead of the worst manager any of us has ever seen?
    Absolutely. The talent Cash has provided could have won.
    On at least one occasion it almost won despite Boone.
    Cash has huge resources, yes. His track record is mixed.
    Boone’s track record is not mixed. It is one, long, dragged out, unending catastrophe..

    1. someone posted up a link that made the case that the yanks have won exactly as many games as they were expected to based on payroll over the last 20 years.

      it’s hard to imagine that preparation was a problem along the same lines as the front office.

    2. “Based on payroll” is incredibly abstract. How about based on talent? How about vs. more difficult opponents? We don’t have to try and tease unpreparedness out of an abstract jumble of numbers – we watch the games. We’ve seen the “bunts.” We know the contact play and how it’s used, for heaven’s sake. That they are unprepared is not a claim requiring investigation, it is a fact requiring explanation and, better yet, fixing.

    3. i’m not a boone fanboy but i don’t think he has been given the perfect pieces thanks to cashman. i really wanted more offense this season and they ran it back and then aground.

      their records are not good enough.

      the oversliding, the lack of an approach, the damn lollipops… wtf is going on?

      but we have already thought more about it until Hal will have to interrupt his yacht trip next fall for another Zoom.

    4. “the oversliding, the lack of an approach, the damn lollipops… wtf is going on?”
      Exactly… and that’s surely on Boone, not the FO, isn’t it?

    2. I think they do that kind of like the Royals 2015. So far 7 reliever wins, no starter wins.

    1. in the CPBL

      actually I think they should trade him. He won’t bring much but he’s never going to do anything in this org

    2. I concur, and I wonder if the Yankees developmental team has messed with him too much. I don’t know.

      I know they like OBP, but they really love slug. Cashman is all in on the three true outcomes: baserunners through walks, homers to drive them in, and strikeouts are an acceptable trade for more power. And while it excels during the season when they can feast on average or worse pitchers and poor teams, in the post season, pitchers don’t make as many mistakes or give up a ton of walks to hitters swinging out of their shoes at the first fastball they see. I think that they have a solid core of hitters and players to try a different strategy. Let Rice and Judge hit and hit home runs, Jones as a dangerous 5 or 6 hitter, and use the rest of the lineup to work up pitch counts and hit the baseball.

  42. Are the Yankee hitters so bad because they have no approach and Boone and Rowson are clueless?
    Or are the Yankee hitters so bad because Cashman is hanging on like Joe Louis after unretiring?

    All of the above?

  43. Yankees v.Rasmussen.

    … the Yankees flailed helplessly against his stuff, making contact only 35 times out of 53 swings for an abysmal 66% contact rate. Even when they did make contact, it was mostly harmless. The Yankees managed just two hard-hit balls in fair territory against Rasmussen, both by Heliot Ramos of all people …

    https://www.pinstripealley.com/yankees-analysis-sabermetrics/212333/yankees-analysis-drew-rasmussen-alds-game-1-postseason-rays

    1. the Yankees are unconcerned with prolonging PAs. A 4 pitch strikeout has the same value to them as a 12 pitch flyout.

  48. This makes ZERO SENSE.

    “I don’t think you can pin the season and the unacceptable end to it on Aaron [Boone],” Steinbrenner said on a Zoom call. “I don’t think you can pin it on [Brian Cashman], based on the roster he put together.

    Cashman put together a good roster that didn’t hit but it wasn’t Boone’s fault that they didn’t hit.

    1. So the players are responsible if they perform poorly, but not Cashman for getting players that performed poorly, and not Boone for not getting more out of their ability.
      Oooooooooooookay, Hal. Then tell me: when ARE the GM and manager responsible for, you know… something?
      (We know the answer.
      Never.)

  50. I really like these teams. The Milwaukee team in particular.
    If I believed the Yankee front office were capable of learning, I’d hope they were watching.

    2. I would hire Matt Arnold in a heartbeat, but most of that is because he shares my view that there are no sacred cows on a roster. IMO, it’s better to be out a year too early on a guy than a year late.

  51. I’ve said it for years, Hal is the real problem. He just gave Cashman 5 more years because it isn’t Cashman’s fault or the fault of any of the non-players Cashman hires. Fundamentals? Ha!

  52. I hardly see the difference.
    Boone’s an albatross.
    Cashman’s awful in part because of his unwavering devotion to keeping that albatross around the team’s neck. If Cashman didn’t love Boone, Boone wouldn’t be here.
    Hal, in turn, could fire Boone. He could fire Cashman for (inter alia) keeping Boone. Hal’s a problem because he’s not solving Cash and Boone being problems.
    It’s all just different ways of talking about one and the same single problem.

  53. I have a great mechanic. He ordered a part for my transmission from the world’s fines manufacturer. My mechanic carefully installed the part. My car couldn’t get out of neutral. It wasn’t my mechanics fault or the facility that made the part.
    I blame the part,

    3. I’m sure the manufacturer, the mechanic and the part all got ice cream together, but they left Bop and the rest of us out in the cold.

  60. Swinging at strikes, fouling balls off, not being overly reliable on launch angles, going oppo. Approach. And that’s on Rowson and more so on Boone. And Cashman.

    FUCK YOU HAL! He doesn’t go to many games but if he does I hope the fans boo him back to Tampa.

  62. The Brewers scored 8 runs after there were 2 outs with one man on, and then won a challenge that would have ended the inning before scoring. All runs were knocked in by singles and doubles. Shocking.

    They play baseball the wrong way, right, Cashman?

  65. The Brewers are a really fun team to watch. They do not take their foot off the gas for a minute. Every hitter tries to work the count and put pressure on the opposing pitcher AND defense.

  77. Soooooooooooooooooo depressing that we just can’t get rid of Boone. Never, ever, ever, ever. He’ll be here longer than Connie Mack managed the A’s. He’s the forever manager. The forever worst ever manager. They can’t even pair him with a Zim. It’s just all Boone, all the time, game after game, month after month, year after year, decade after decade (almost there now, does anyone doubt it?).
    It’s some kind of bizarre form of mass psychological torture.

  81. Taking out your star starting pitcher after 4 innings in a 1-0 game with your season on the line is a Bob Lemon 1981 move. It didn’t work then it didn’t work now.

  84. “I truly think that 2027 legitimately WILL be the end of his run unless they make it back to the Series.”
    Well, we’ll see. I absolutely do not think so. I am absolutely certain they intend to hire him for years to come.
    Obviously, I would hope you’re right, if I had any hope of that at all.

    1. If they get to the ALCS and aren’t embarrassed he’s back. If Boone builds on his 27-30 playoff record maybe not. Meanwhile Cashman is designing the roster and Hal just cares about price per share and YES ratings.

  87. I like the way you guys see things.
    But I don’t think it’s an issue. I think they’ve proven that performance just doesn’t bear on their personal assessments at all.
    They
    love
    Boone.
    They could miss the playoffs and I don’t think it would bother anyone in the organization very much. They’ll hire him for another 5 years.

    2. He had a comparable record entering this season.
      There was no discussion of dismissing him.
      It’s hard for US to overlook. I see zero evidence for the proposition that it’s in the least bit hard for THEM.

    3. He was signed to a post-World Series extension before this season. He will now be heading into the final year of his contract. They definitely won’t FIRE him, but I can easily see them not bringing him back if they don’t make the World Series. YC might be right, though, that even a trip to the ALCS would be enough (definitely not another ALDS loss).

    4. I don’t see that at all. I don’t know WHY you guys think it (other than because it makes at least some sense as a strategy, which is irrelevant). I just don’t think they’re even considering a change at manager.
      In fact, more broadly, the very idea of change as such seems to be antipathetic to their way of thinking.

    1. They wanted to name SOME award after Mays, and they came up with that one, because he never got to win the award himself despite having one of the most famous plays in World Series history (the award debuted a year after “The Catch.” Interestingly, though, there is a very good chance that he wouldn’t have won it in 1954 even HAD there been an award given out that year, as I think Dusty Rhodes would have won it. A line of .667 BA/.714 OBP/1.667 SLG in the 1954 World Series for Rhodes).

  89. After Jake Bauers handed him the final-out baseball from Game 5 against the Tampa Bay Rays, Pat Murphy hugged him and said, “You’re going to be a rich fucker. Just remember when you were on that horseshit Yankees team and you guys are all playing for yourself — just remember, say, ‘This is the way we used to do it.'”

    1. Jake Bauers sucked for two years in Cleveland and one in Tampa before sucking in NY. Is this one of those only people in the Midwest are real Americans?

    2. I believe Murphy’s comments are not in the context of “When he WAS on the Yankees” but “When is IS on the Yankees next year after they give him a big contract.” You see, it’s not that they WERE a horseshit team, it is that they ARE a horseshit team.

    3. Someone had a line I like about “Imagine Joe Torre telling David Cone after they won in 1996, ‘Boy, remember how shitty the 1992 Mets were?'” Why is this even on Pat Murphy’s mind at the time of winning the World Series? Who thinks like that?

  90. I’m with PW. I just don’t see it.

    Cashman let Torre walk after 2007. That year was only the 2nd season under Torre they didn’t win the division (the other was 1997, his second season). It was the 7th season in a row he didn’t win the World Series, but he HAD won 4 out of 5 to start his tenure and made 6 out of his first 8. Despite all that built up success, he was let go after 12 total seasons.

    Conversely, Boone has never won a World Series. Only gotten to the World Series once in 9 years. Won the division 3 out of 9 times and even missed the playoffs. So he’s had 9 years on not winning it all with ZERO track record of success.

    Still, even though, like Cashman this year, he will technically end the season without a contract, like Cashman this year, there is zero chance the Yankees will let him walk. Cashman will do his power trip that he does with everyone. The same power trip he did with Boone last time, making him take slightly less money than he wants and let him twist in the wind for a week or two, but ultimately, like Cashman this year, he will be back without the slightest bit of discussion if they should want him back. Just that little hand wringing over money so Cashman can show everyone who is boss.

    This Yankees team has changed from the Torre era and this Yankees team has shown time and time again they are happy with the way things are going. Boone included. If they are happy, why would they change?

  91. let’s set the clock of cashman’s tenure at 2017 and look at that year to the present.

    there’s no legacy talent from the core 4, 2009

    he has his manager

    he is fully responsible for the rebuilds and trades

    2.5 billion in salary, 1.6B more than the rays, yet only 34 more regular season wins.

    there’s no objective metric that says these guys need to run the show for life.

    1. The metric is 1 owner who doesn’t want to have to deal with finding a replacement for Cashman when he was never interested in running a baseball team and the business is making bank.

    3. But don’t owners who make bank want to make more bank?
      Imagine how much money Hal would make if he had a GM who didn’t make so many expensive mistakes (DJL re-sign; Josh Donaldson trade; McMahon trade; Aaron Hicks; Ellsbury; etc etc). A GM who could win as many games with a lower payroll and maybe even win a WS more often than once in 25 years.

  92. do you think tim raines might make a good coach or advisor?

    i remember him talking about jeter early – that if he changed his approach he thought he could be the greatest hitter ever but jeter was a bit uncoachable and good enough as he was.

    so maybe he didn’t get through – but at least he understands what an approach might look like and his other fundamentals were great.

    sometimes i find the problem with stars is that they think everything should be easy for avg players like it may have been for them though.

    and we don’t even have average players.

    1. KC: maybe we have above average players who become below average after playing for Boone. Using OPS+
      Gleyber: 122, 128, 103, 93.
      Sanchez: 168(partial), 126, 89 (then 129, 70)
      Jazz 131 (partial), 122, 97
      I worry about Ben Rice.

  95. Who says there doing nothing?
    Heyman The Yankees aren’t renewing the contracts Omar Minaya and Brian Sabean, who served as special assistants to GM Brian Cashman, via sources. Minaya is the former Mets GM, Sabean the Giants GM in their heyday.

    3. I imagine this is them saying, “Okay, we’re committing to you, Cash, but you need to bring in some new voices, and not just your old buddies.”

  97. the reds declined the 15m option on suarez despite him proving 3.6war last season.

    the yanks paid 16m for macmahon, who provided 0.0war and will do so again next season.

    cashgod

    1. the reds declined the 15m option on suarez despite him proving 3.6war last season.

      Suarez was 3.6 WAR the year BEFORE. Last year he was 0.6, and the Reds put him on waivers and no one bit.

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