The Yankees introduced this morning that they’ve signed supervisor Aaron Boone to a two-year contract extension protecting the 2026-27 seasons. His earlier contract was set to run out after 2025, so this takes him out of “lame duck” standing.
The information doesn’t come as a shock. Groups usually don’t wish to have managers working in a lame-duck place. The Yankees did it with Boone as soon as earlier than, in 2021, although that was a uncommon incidence. He initially joined the Yankees through a three-year deal going into 2018, with a membership choice for 2021. The Yanks picked up that choice and did let Boone handle that season on an expiring contract.
On October 19 of that 12 months, Boone and the membership agreed to a brand new three-year deal which lined the 2022-24 seasons and got here with a ’25 choice. There was maybe a little bit of drama round his standing as supervisor when the membership missed the playoffs in 2023, however they bounced again final 12 months by successful the American League East and going so far as the World Collection. The Yanks picked up their ’25 choice firstly of the offseason. Extra just lately, each proprietor Hal Steinbrenner and basic supervisor Brian Cashman spoke of desirous to get an extension achieved.
Boone is a divisive determine within the fanbase however there’s a number of great things on his monitor report. The Yanks have made the postseason in six of his seven seasons on the helm, with the aforementioned 2023 marketing campaign being the lone exception. They’ve had some robust postseason losses however, as talked about, simply went to the World Collection a number of months in the past. As skipper, he has a daily season report of 603-429, a .584 successful proportion.
Although some followers will stay sad with Boone till he wins a title, it might have been very uncommon for a membership to maneuver on from a supervisor and even let him keep in lame-duck standing on the heels of successful a pennant.
As all the time, the Yankees can be going into the upcoming season with their eyes on competition. They misplaced Juan Soto however had an aggressive offseason nonetheless, including Max Fried, Cody Bellinger, Paul Goldschmidt, Devin Williams and others. One other disappointing season will embolden those that are already upset with Boone, however the membership clearly feels ok to place pen to paper with him at this time, avoiding in-season storylines about his unsure contract standing.
