The Yankees announced that they’ve signed supervisor Aaron Boone to a two-year contract extension overlaying 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 prefer to have managers working in a lame-duck place. The Yankees did it with Boone as soon as earlier than, in 2021, however that was a uncommon prevalence. 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 Oct. 19 of that 12 months, Boone and the membership agreed to a brand new three-year deal that 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 profitable the American League East and going so far as the World Collection. The Yanks picked up their ’25 choice firstly of the offseason. Extra lately, each proprietor Hal Steinbrenner and common supervisor Brian Cashman spoke of desirous to get an extension executed.
Boone is a divisive determine within the fan base, however there’s quite a lot of good things on his observe file. 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 powerful postseason losses however, as talked about, simply went to the World Collection just a few months in the past. As skipper, he has an everyday season file of 603-429, a .584 profitable proportion.
Though 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 profitable a pennant.
As at all times, the Yankees will probably be going into the upcoming season with their eyes on rivalry. 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, avoiding in-season storylines about his unsure contract standing.
