"Aaron Boone has never been bad at his job."
Are you still with me? Take it all in. I know some of you are still laughing and I don't blame you because I was as I typed this. However, I'm not making this up. SOMEONE out there actually believes Boonie has NEVER been bad at his job.
That's a hot take and you can read it all HERE all thanks to Ian O'Connor of the New York Post. Nice opinion to have right after the Yankees eliminated Cleveland. It's easy to be happy and very agreeable after the Yankees get to continue playing in hopes of getting back to the World Series. It was all roses Tuesday night.
Now it's Thursday and we just lost ALCS Game 1 to the ASSTROS so I'm not feeling so rosey but real talk, even if we WON last night, I wouldn't share O'Connor's opinion. I have never been high on Boonie, I never thought he was the right choice and still don't believe he is a "good" manager either. So here's the next O'Connor tidbit to blow your mind:
"Boone’s regular-season winning percentage of .603 is effectively the same as Joe Torre’s (.605), and he stands with Torre and Casey Stengel as the only managers to reach the postseason in each of their first five years with the Yanks."
STOP! Just stop, O'Connor. Torre and Stengel are Yankee LEGENDS that Boone just can't even compare to. He must've lost his marbles! Stengel won 9 World Series championships in 10 years and the one time the Yankees did not go to the World Series they still won 103 games. Torre managed and molded the Yankees I grew up watching. Both of these brilliant managers won MULTIPLE championships and meanwhile Boonie hasn't even won his first. Stop the comparison's O'Connor, you sound foolish.
So, the bottom line to O'Connor's crazy piece is that Boonie "saved his job" by beating Cleveland in the ALDS. So, beating a team you are "better than" on paper saves your job? The Yankees were expected to beat Cleveland. Why does that save Boonie's job? It's insanity.
Bottom line Mr. O'Connor....Boonie wasn't in danger of losing his job because it was never in jeopardy. The Yankees love him for their own crazy reasons. They are committed. If they weren't sold on him they could've walked away from him at the end of the 2021 season when his contract was up. Instead they gave him a 3-year commitment. Even if Cleveland won, Boonie wasn't going anywhere.
Now tell me Mr. O'Connor....is Boonie going to graduate from "never been bad at his job" to a good manager if we make it back to the World Series? Way to set the bar low.... I have higher expectations then that. I know a lot of other people who do too.
BYB Senior Managing Editor
Twitter: @nyprincessj
Boone looks scared and over his head.
ReplyDeleteLet's bring Judge into the picture, he comes up small year after year in the playoffs at the plate and when the team is eliminated he goes
around telling the players wait until next year,if he does not redeem himself this year he can go to another team.Great Yankees are known for championship's.