WHY ARE THE YANKEES WINNING? IT'S SIMPLE... BOONE'S NOT MEDDLING

Baseball is a game.  You get a coach that likes to micromanage and be friends with the players... that's a death sentence. I mean, say what you will about Joe Girardi... but at the end of the day, he was a tough skip. He didn't take shit. He wasn't there to be friends... he was doing his job.

He also didn't try to befriend his players.  And when the game happened... the player's played.  Now it just so happens that when there were tough games Girardi couldn't help himself and micromanaged and probably lost a few because of it.  But in the end... the players played... they got familiar with each other... they used their talents and didn't stress it. IT'S A GAME. 

We're seeing this now with the Yankees.  They like winning, who doesn't? But in the end, Aaron Boone has almost taken a back seat recently.  You can see it. 

He's not up their asses, micromanaging, hugging everyone, trying to have photo ops with his Yankee idols. No... he's letting this team play... and that's the most important part. 

10 in a row is a big deal... but you can't think about numbers... you just gotta think about playing good baseball.  That doesn't include the manager... that all about the players.  I have said it alot, this team looked great on paper in the beginning. I mean sure, we changed some things around and clearly we got better, but the talent was ALWAYS there. We just needed a manager to back up and let them play. They're playing, they're winning, they're enjoying the game they signed up for. That's incredible.

The past few weeks is always about different people contributing. Velasquez, Rizzo, Voit, Judge. Last night it was about Stanton.

The New York Post writes:

"The Yankees continued their stunning turnaround by beating the Braves, a team that was as hot as they were heading into Monday’s game at Truist Park.

Sparked by another strong game from Giancarlo Stanton, who had a solo homer and a two-run double, the Yankees won their season-high 10th straight, with a 5-1 victory.

It’s their longest winning streak since last September and came in the first game between two teams entering with winning streaks of at least nine games since 1901.

With the win, the Yankees pulled to within four games of the first-place Rays in the AL East and began a nine-game road trip with another solid performance from their pitching staff, which has a 2.28 ERA during the streak."

MLB writes:

"Giancarlo Stanton ripped a 119.2 mph go-ahead two-run double to left field -- the hardest-hit ball in Truist Park history -- in the sixth to deliver a 5-1 win in the opener of the two-game series in Atlanta.

“He’s a unicorn,” said manager Aaron Boone. “He does things every night that are a little bit different than anyone else. … Every time he hits a ball, like a ground ball that you see an infielder maybe think he’s got a beat on -- they tend to get through, because they’re hit a little bit harder than you think.


“Everyone gets a kick out of going to the board -- ‘How hard did he hit it?’ A lot of times you miss it -- ‘What was that one?’”

“It’s usually, ‘Is that all I got?’ or cracking about it or something,” added Stanton. “So yeah, we have fun with it.”

And there's that word. Fun. When players aren't feeling the stress of micromanaging, they have fun. Boone's loosened the reigns a bit and that is why we are seeing this happening.  The team was always sound... he just didn't know how to navigate as a manager and was messing things up. 

Let's hope it continues.