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This week, the Yankees pretty much fired all of their assistant coaches sans Matt Blake, the pitching coach. As Yankees fans, we all impatiently waited for the final decision on Aaron Boone’s destiny only to be hit with a very annoying and predictable outcome.
Boone will be signing a 3-year contract with an option year to return as manager of the Yankees, according to a person who has been briefed on the matter. #yankees #boone
— Jack Curry (@JackCurryYES) October 19, 2021
Wonderful. Not only is Aaron Boone returning next season but the Yankees gave him a 3-year extension for some reason.
Yes, Boone has a 328-218 win-loss record in 4 seasons as the head skipper. A .601 winning percentage. Dope. Unfortunately, this team has yet to get past the ALCS during his time here.
Here’s who team owner, Hal Steinbrenner, blamed for the Yankee’s inability to get over the hump:
“They’re the ones on the field. They’re a group of very talented, professional athletes that [are] playing this game at the highest level in the world. They need to fix this problem. They need to fix the problem, because everyone, including our fanbase, and rightfully so, has had enough, quite frankly. It’s enough, and they know that, and you’re seeing them say that.”
Interesting move to blame the players on the field for not performing while simultaneously absolving the coach who is responsible for maximizing the talent on the roster and the general manager who is responsible for acquiring the best players available.
This organization is gaslighting Yankees fans. There is a stubbornness to reflect on what actually needs to change and pulling the trigger on that change.
Personally, I don’t think Aaron Boone makes players better. But he doesn’t make them worse. He’s just another guy. And that’s fine. But you can see the Red Sox go to war for Alex Cora. But you also have managers like Jayce Tingler who just let the Padres crumble under the weight of their own surprising success.
Boone is somewhere in the middle and that seems to be the point. He’s a popular face that doesn’t rock the boat. He doesn’t challenge the organization and evidently, he doesn’t seem to challenge the players either.
But when you look around at the best teams in Major League Baseball, they are all playing a superior game and that’s because they have smart people pivoting as the game evolves while Brian Cashman and his minions just want guys who hit home runs or strikeout.
The Rays, the Dodgers, the Astros, all have deep lineups and bench players that can all hit into the gaps and run the bases. How many players on the Yankees can hit and move around the base pads athletically with consistency? Aaron Judge and DJ LeMahieu?
My point is that the front office put together a team that cannot generate contact or steal bases or really play defense and is blaming those same players for not being able to generate contact or steal bases or really play defense while facing zero accountability for the team they put together.
And then they are looking at Yankees fans and blaming them for having too high of expectations. We are holding Aaron Boone to too high of a standard apparently.
That attitude completely disregards the fact that the Yankees have the 2nd highest average ticket price in Major League Baseball. If Yankees fans are paying the most expensive tickets to watch a team with one of the largest payrolls, then no shit they have high expectations and demand, at the very least, a team that can advance past the ALCS.
This organization will never win until they replace the people in charge who still believe it’s 2009. Also, stop fucking re-signing Brett Gardner.
