The Yankees announced Friday that they’ve exercised their 2025 club option on manager Aaron Boone. He’ll return for an eighth season as the club’s skipper next year.
“Aaron is a steadying presence in our clubhouse and possesses a profound ability to connect with and foster relationships with his players,” GM Brian Cashman said in a statement within this morning’s press release. “Consistently exhibiting these skills in such a demanding and pressurized market is what makes him one of the game’s finest managers. Our work is clearly not done, but as we pursue the ultimate prize in 2025, I am excited to have Aaron back to lead our team.”
The 2024 season saw Boone’s Yankees post a 94-68 record en route to their third AL East title in seven years under his watch. It was the fifth time in six 162-game seasons that a Boone-led Yankees squad won at least 92 games. The Yanks also won their first American League pennant under Boone this past season. Of course, the season still ended in heartbreak for the Yankees, who fell 4-1 against the Dodgers in the World Series, squandering a 5-0 lead in large part due to one of the most painful innings in franchise history.
Boone and the Yankees were attempting to become the first club in MLB history to erase a 3-0 World Series deficit. No team who’d fallen behind 3-0 in the World Series had so much as forced a Game 6. The Yankees looked on their way to doing just that with five early runs against the Dodgers and Gerrit Cole on the mound, but they coughed up five runs in the fifth inning following errors by Aaron Judge and Anthony Volpe as well as a defensive lapse that saw first base left uncovered on a grounder to Anthony Rizzo.
Brutal as that one inning was, it won’t sour the organization on the notion that Boone is the right person to steer the ship next year. Whether the two parties discuss an extension remains to be seen. The Yankees allowed Boone to navigate an entire season as a lame-duck skipper in 2021 before re-signing him to a three-year deal that October. As pressure for an elusive World Series trophy continues to mount, it’s at least possible that the Yankees could wait until next offseason before making their decision on whether Boone is right for the job in 2026 and beyond.
“I am grateful for the trust placed in me to lead this team. It’s a responsibility – and an opportunity – that I will never take lightly,” Boone said in his own statement. “It’s a great privilege to show up for work every day and be surrounded by so many determined and talented players, coaches and staff members. Starting with Steinbrenner family, there is a collective commitment to excellence within this organization that is embedded in all that we do. I’m already looking forward to reporting for spring training in Tampa and working tirelessly to return the Yankees to the postseason to compete for a World Championship.”
Under Boone, the Yankees have played at a 603-429 pace. That .584 winning percentage has resulted in postseason berths in six of seven seasons. Much of the Yankees’ 2025 outlook will be dependent on how the offseason plays out. They appear barreling toward a bidding war over Juan Soto and have potential needs at multiple infield spots and in the bullpen as well.
Gimme a minute, popping my corn for this!
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Hahaha came here just for this as well :-)….Annnnddd Go!
Looks like we’re early!!!
Got a good seat, at least!!
No Pointing.
I’ll get the beer!
I don’t think a single Yankees fan thought Boone would be gone. It’s also become clear that he’s far from the biggest problem
Well, looks like my profile pic has to stay for another season….. yuck.
It seems like they are all waiting for me, Clip, so I don’t want to disappoint them all! What a GD joke. Boone is the worst manager in MLB. He can’t manage a pitching staff properly, his team was unfocused and not prepared to compete in the WS, and his stupid face is still on Clip’s profile (to start the year anyway). I don’t get the appeal of this freaking guy. He is a fake Yankee who also sucks at his job. Cashman gives this dude 90 wins and a playoff berth through roster construction, only to watch him bring in a pitcher that hasn’t pitched in 40 days because his elbow is torn up into the 10th inning of a WS a game because he “liked that match up”. How do you like getting your a$$ handed to you? Freaking moron!!
no surprise.
Honestly, cant understand why. There must be another muppet around there that won’t make much fuss about Cashman interference and actually can make the right changes on the field..
That call to put Cortes on the first game of the WS was the wrong one for anybody except for the guy who’s been on the job for seven (almost eight) years now… that and “saving” the bullpen in a what ended up being an elimination game should have the terminal decisions in a long roll of wrong ones…
@gwynn and the comments did not disappoint. People wonder why I despise the waaahnkees and their fans so much.. the comments here show it. Team gets to the world series and they want the manager fired. Try being a fan of a team who hasn’t sniffed the post season in a decade.
If you’re In a team that hasn’t reached the playoffs in a decade the pressure and expectations are way lower… not that smart analogy as you think it is.
The guy has been there 7 years, in all of them making mistakes. Finally reaches the WS and loses it miserably… at most he only showed he doesn’t have what it takes to win it all. Particularly about that game 1, everyone saw it was a bad idea… except the guy that matters the most…
@APD my point is that the Yankees are always in contention and that’s what you should be focused on being happy with, but Yankees fans are spoiled brats. The post-season has ALWAYS been about which team is the hottest, and the best team doesn’t always win (not true this year). The only world series trh Angels ever won they were a wild card team, hardly the best.
Yes the Yankees are always in contention that’s who a manager that can only do that is not a good argument. I mean even girardi did it in what was supposed to be a rebuild year…
Boone with 2 MVPs 1 Cy Young and countless number of all stars including a guy called Juan Soto has the obligation to do much better than that. Honestly this year was the definitive prove that Boone doesn’t have it, for me.
And the “some franchises have it much worse” is just a lame take. Just because some teams are badly run doesn’t mean you should accept yours not doing the best it can
All of his teams throughout the years have been terrible at basic fundamentals. This, arguably, lost them the World Series. Here’s to another season of the same. They better be able to re-sign Juan Soto or it’s right back to third place in American League East.
Like Gwynning, here for the comments!
OMG. Huge mistake but an obvious move. Mattingly needed to come back. Steinbrenner is not his Daddy. OMG so much to say but I won’t. I’m still very angry and bitter over WS.
Why are you angry or bitter over the WS.. yankees had no chance over the Dodgers! Yankees had the easiest path to the world series with no real competition.. or you thought yall was going to win 4 straight.. be lucky they wasnt swept!
Biggavelli: I think the Yankees gave the Dodgers big gifts in Games 1 and 5. The Dodgers took advantage of course as good teams do, but I think they were big gifts.
The Yankees absolutely pissed away games 1 and 5. People who say otherwise are clueless
The dodgers hardly faced a gauntlet my friend.
Whether it’s they won or we lost the outcome is the same. It really doesn’t matter at all.
Not angry or bitter. Disappointed that we didn’t even show up. Yankees did more losing than the Dodgers did winning.
It sort of matters when you are talking about brining back a manager that didn’t have his team ready to play. If we got housed by a roster that was better than ours, then fine. We beat ourselves in at least two games because either the manager didn’t have his team prepared to compete or the manager made terrible decisions. Either way, it matters only when considering the future of the manager with team.
I’ll tell you what I’m getting real tired of reading all these negative & disparaging remarks about Boone sooo let me write some.
1. Unable or unwilling to instill/enforce basic fundamentals, i.e base running, defense, etc.
2. No tactical awareness, half the time I think he’s sleeping w/his eyes open
3. He manages the bullpen like his hair is on fire, the never ending for the ineffective reliever, etc, etc, etcetera
Boonie seems like a genuinely good guy but as an MLB manager, hard pass. Ahahahaha!
My fiancée gave me one day to be pissy and that was plenty. A lot of logic ^^^
Boone’s a “gut instinct” type of manager. Thankfully, Brian Cashman tells him what his “gut instinct” will be for that particular day the night before the next day’s game.
The theatrics, exaggerations and histrionics of Boone’s near daily game ejections? That’s all Aaron.
Boone isn’t a manager, he’s their pal. He doesn’t ruffle any of the players’s feathers, wouldn’t want to bruise their egos. He will come to their defense for any dumb base-running or defensive shortcomings they are going to have because he doesn’t want the players to get offended. That’s just my assessment of watching Yankees games this year, just my opinion.
It’s his job to take as much of the heat as possible when the players that Cashman gives him to make up the team screw up.
Got to put it on the players who don’t keep their eye on the ball, or run out the play, not Boone.
ESPECIALLY in the BIGGEST game of your year!!!!!!
Yep, and that’s exactly what he was hired to be. We saw him bench Gleyber and things changed. He won’t make public comments disparaging players — he keeps discipline behind closed doors.
Frankly, I don’t pay attention to his interviews, comments, post game anything. I don’t care. I watch the games. He wins a lot. He makes some mistakes. He makes some good calls.
He’s a good manager, not great. But he’s clearly good with the players, and in New York, that shouldn’t be discounted.
@Acoss – You don’t know how he manages behind closed doors. There are plenty of managers that take the heat off of players with the media, and then hold them accountable in private
That’s true, BUT if he does hold them “accountable” then why do they keep repeating the mistakes and getting playing time?
Fair enough
Sure Error in Judgement you’re making a gadrillion dollars but watch the ball into your glove.
Because your Yankees just aren’t very good.
Because Cashman makes those calls.
Boony has the big guy backing him in Judge, so it’s a no brainer.
The Big Guy counts for 10%, iirc…
Sorry, I’ll pardon myself outta here!
The owner, the GM, and the players really like him, so he stays. The fan reaction to the decision is immaterial.
Well Boone and Judge have something in common….both of them perform great in the regular season then become liabilities in playoffs.
Boone does anything but perform great in the regular season. His decisions are terrible and constantly put the yankees in position to lose the games. The only reason they won so much this year was because they had Soto and Judge put up career years. You saw what happened in the playoffs when one of them was struggling….They lost and you noticed how bad Boone is at managing.
One of the worst managers in the game. The Yankees should have won the World Series. Boone blew 3 very winable games with his poor decision making. I’m glad that the Yankees kept him
The Dodgers are a better team than the Yankees but the WS shouldn’t have been the clown show it was.
@Joe says… Game 1 debacle set the tone for the entire series
100% right! Yanks win game 1, the entire series would have been different.
that’s correct. And we had a chance to win that series 2, despite the fact of the Dodgers may be a better team. If we were better manage, that is I’ll manage. It didn’t even have to be great, he just had to avoid making obvious blunders at the worst possible times, but he can’t ever do that can he?
Incoming angry Yankee fans!
*RAISES HAND*
What is wrong with being an angry Yankees fan? You get to the world series and piss away the chance to win it all because of mental mistakes by player and manager. It was a joke.
I’m curious why Boone gets so much hate, yet Snitker doesn’t. They’re essentially the same type of manager.
“Gets so much hate”…Ask yourself which one of those managers won a World Series in the last 5 yrs?
Winning a WS tends to buy managers a lot of credibility and they get a complete “pass” from the media for several years afterward.
Despite coming back from a 3-1 ATL NLCS lead, and navigating to a difficult 2020 postseason to win the World Series, Roberts had plenty of fan and media detractors for the last 4 years as the Dodgers exited the postseasons early. It literally wasn’t until the Dodgers won the NLDS against the Padres that the media (and most negative fans) came back on board. With this World Series win, he now gets a pass for a couple of years because the Dodger’s future looks compelling.
There were legit Yankee fans who said they hoped the Yanks would lose the WS so Boone would get fired.
They’d rather fire Boone than win a title. Think about that.
The Yankees had injuries this year. The Braves were a triage tent. MVP out most of the year. Probable Cy Young winner out for the playoffs. Previous year’s ace (Fried) out for a spell. They still got in the playoffs. Snitker’s a good manager which is not the “type of manager” that Boone is.
The Yankees didn’t have injuries, they burned up pitchers like they do every year.
People forget that Boone isn’t out on the field playing. I wouldn’t have minded them moving on, but I also have no problem with a one year deal to see if he can get back. I think it comes down to if his owner gets the job done and brings Soto back. If Hal can’t afford Soto, he shouldn’t own the Yankees and should sell to a real billionaire who can afford him.
The problem, imho, is that Boone isn’t on the field managing either… He’s a bench coach with the title of manager.
@Clip, you are generous calling him that. He’s their BFF, seems like (“a steadying presence in our clubhouse and possesses a profound ability to connect with and foster relationships with his players”).
Oh well… I guess I’ll have to give up on my fantasy of seeing the Warrior managing this team. 🙂
I’m pretty sure Pauly would’ve run out to second and punched Gleyber, if he were the manager, and justifiably so.
not even a bench coach, clipper, just a data applicator,as sal Licata likes to say. but not a particularly good one
it’s nice to see that the Dodgers and Joe Kelly’s comments about how incompetent the Yankees were at fundamentals, was listened to why the Yankees organization. The first thing they did was bring back the fool puppet boone.
and this team has found more humiliating ways to lose in the postseason under him then at any other time. Quite refreshing.
What’s hilarious is that the Dodgers are literally making fun of the Yankees and exposed exactly what their fans see on a daily basis; yet, the Yankees front office still denies they way in which the World Series champions LAD openly admits they beat them.
Pain
No angry Yankees fan here. Have I liked all his in game management? No, but I haven’t with most managers. That’s being a fan.
What I do like is he takes all the heat, he defends his players at all costs, and never have I thought he’s lost the clubhouse because of it.
I like Boone and glad he’s getting another shot.
This team has no accountability for their lackadaisical play and that’s on the manager. But getting rid of Boone would require Cashman to admit he didn’t hire the right guy for the job so Boone has a job as long as he wants.
What did you want him to do exactly?
Either way he got us to the World Series, he wasn’t getting fired this year.
Girardi was not brought back and he was one game short of the WS.
What I expect of Boone is to bench players for lazy play. He only did it with Torres and that had positive results at least in the short term. I expect him to recognize when it’s time to make a change at closer sooner than three weeks after everyone else has recognized it.
One game short vs. World Series is huge honestly.
He treats his players like adults. It’s 2024 and this style of management is more appealing to players hence why he’s a players manager. Giradi did not and he lost them.
He also gives them as much opportunities as possible, again not a bad quality.
And again World Series appearance.
I agree with you, Joe, except you know as well as I do it’s not gonna happen. He’s not allowed to, that’s why he is there and also because he’s willing to take less money than the other managers veterans similar positions.
As a fan who has no idea what goes on in the clubhouse, i’m sure your assessement must be 100% accurate
The only thing I’d like to add is that Boone is getting the same, if not MORE, grace than did Joe Torre, who was a four-time WS Champion and had multiple seasons wherein he was within a few games of the WS. Moreover, one of Torre’s most difficult and arduous seasons was Boone’s greatest achievement.
Boone will forever live in Yankees lore for that homer. Definitely one of the greatest moments for me in a Boston friendly bar with my two Yankees friends, lol!
Who’s fault is it when a team lacks fundamentals?
So lameduck status. If they were fully confident in him, Boone would’ve received an extension.
Clearly you can’t fire him after getting to the WS, but they also weren’t happy with his management therein. Makes sense to keep it to one year for now.
The Yankees fired both Casey Stengel and Yogi Berra after getting to the World Series.
True. How long ago was that? Who owned the team? How many teams were there in baseball? Did women have the right to vote yet? Will they when Boone does eventually leave?
64 and 60 years ago.Dan Topping. 16 and 20. Yes. Yes.
The 2003 ALCS game 7 HR still clearly paying off for Boone
An all timer.
As well as for the Red Sox.
boone is a great fit for a fundamentally sound team with locker room enforcers keeping everyone on their toes. in other words, he’s a terrible fit for the yankees
Seemed to do fine last year……
yankees played sloppy throughout the playoffs. they won ugly and reached the world series where boone arguably cost them game 1
He did, but he got them there. So it’s why his option was picked up, but he wasn’t given a new contract beyond.
Boone did not get them there….they got there despite Boone.
That’s a ridiculous statement that downplays a manager’s job. A bad manager does not even get his team to the playoffs.
but there’s no doubt that he will. He’s loved to buy his bosses for his yes man and puppet behavior.
The more and more things remain, the more and more they tend to stay the same.
We should see a terrible base running, fundamentally challenged, and horrendous defensive team next year in the Bronx.
God speed with all the Yankees fans in here.
Yeah hopefully he doesn’t lead your team to another world series. That would suck……
Not a yankees fan pal.
Lot of weird entitlement here by Yankees fans. You just went to the world series. Calm down.
how is it weird? no one is disappointed they made the WS they’re upset that managerial blunders and sloppy play (which was an issue the entire season) led them to lose in embarrassing fashion
You don’t fire a manager after he leads your team to a World Series. Common sense. If it was so embarrassing what about the 28 other teams who weren’t good enough to make it that far? Fire them all????
I told myself during the season that if they made it there, I would be quite happy regardless of the results. But it was the way they got eliminated from the World Series that was dreadful. Their abominable meltdown was unacceptable and of course it’s the recent effect also, but there are more of those such exits under baboon then at any other time. That tells you something too. Is the way that they lost, that will forever leave a bad taste in my mouth.
I knew it was coming but im still disappointed
So Aaron won’t go back to running BOONE’S FARM !!
There seems to be some confusion:
Lackadaisical play is NOT on the manager, it’s on the $million/week supposedly PROFESSIONAL players!
Absolute idiocy to blame another grown man for their inadequacies
of course it’s on the manager. he and his coaching staff are responsible for holding players accountable and addressing issues before they become habits. say what you want about girardi his teams always played hard even in years when they were out of it by august
Perhaps but he was a mediocre at best game day manager.
Because the manager is supposed to yell out, “Watch the ball into your glove!” Holy cow.
As a Red Sox fan to all the Yankees fans out there…. we know how you feel…. welcome to our misery.
I’ll take Cora over Boone.
……and I thought the Clown Car was only going to the White House.
I agree with everything that Raz and Das. The first order of business release DJL and unload Stanton his value won’t get higher. Soto should be back as a DH. Judge back to RF and hopefully Dominez in CF. The Yankees need a legitimate lead off hitter. Maybe Durbin? Volpe? Jazz? Definitely no more Torres. Speed kills. The Yankees philosophy of home run or nothing approach needs to change NOW!!! Signing Rizzo instead of Freeman HUGE mistake. Trading for Stanton instead of signing Harper HUGE mistake. I appreciate the Yankees spending money however stop spending on the wrong players. The Yankees need to do a better job at drafting and developing starting pitchers. The fact that the entire staff can’t guarantee 5-6 innings needs to stop as well.
Why?
Hal once again proving he’s no George Steinbrenner…
@Med. Because I said so!!!!
I thought for sure he would be fired. Especially game 1 of the world series. Putting in Nestor Cortez over Tim Hill or even MLJ(Unless he was used already. Can’t remember)
If Hal doesn’t care about winning then tell the World. Yankee fans deserve better. Plain and simple.
I love this move for the Yankees! Aaron Boone is one of the most underrated managers in MLB. He doesn’t get enough credit for the job he, Blake and the rest of the coaches do year in and out. Hopefully in 2025, Boone will bring a World Series championship to the great baseball fans in New York.
Are you related to Boone by any chance?
someone who does not watch the Yankees obviously if they think baboon does a good job. In reality a baboon would do a better job.
Is he going to the Mets?
He means Boone will stay with the Yankees and, consequently, bring a championship to the Mets.
Sarcasm ??
I’ll bet if you asked the 29 non-Yankee owners or GMs privately if they would trade their current manager for Boone, at least 18 would say ‘yes’.
Craig Counsell cloned. Can’t win the big one.
Good for Boone. Maybe he and Hunter Wendlestadt can have another fun time and get ejected on a fans behalf next season. ” Let’s go Homeplate “. I swear it wasn’t me Hunter!!
Officially done with this team keeping this Clown of a Manager. How many times can a man show he has no idea how to manage or make realistic choices.
Aaron Boone spends more time complaining about the home plate umpire and what the other team is doing than he does for game time management. That’s not my opinion. It’s my observation.
Fire Boone, Fire Cashman, total rebuild year. Trade everyone. The water is tainted.
Sell the team. Move to Peoria.
Cashman is the best GM in MLB. Boone is the south end of a north facing donkey.
Almost nobody is going to agree with this, he’s polarized at best.
If you define “best” as winning the most MLB games of any franchise in MLB since he has been the GM of the Yankees, then he is the best.
Get rid of everyone, and start fresh even if it means tanking. Throwing a 5-0 lead to the dodgers just with poor defence shows how deep running the issues are.
Cashman has made poor decisions year on year, Boone always demonstrates poor decisions in the post season.
Ageing team with a huge payroll, traded everything to get soto to still not win. No doubt the Yankees cannot afford to keep him.
Something needs to change. Giradi did better with a team of rookies, Boone has done f all with a huge payroll. If cashman spent this money towards the end of giradis tenure the Yankees would have stood a better chance of winning it all
As a non yankee fan I giggle when I see “fire the guy who made the playoffs 6 of last 7 years and just came out of the WS”. Tons of teams that would pray to be in the miserable position you think you’re in with Boone. Sure he made some mistakes at some bad times. He’s also in a position to make bad mistakes while 28 other clubs are at home wishing they could make bad mistakes.
What horrible take and one made by someone who thinks this is NBA trade rumors.
Which part exactly the FACT they made the playoffs 6 of the last 7 years or the FACT that the 28 teams not in the WS wish they were?
Ain’t it good to see the Ugly American resurrected? Aaron F’@&kin’ Boone talks about a “World Championship”. Murica, F@&k Yeah!
Who else are they supposed to get? Changing managers ain’t gunna miraculously win them next year’s World Series….
Not a Yankees fan but I’m pretty sure they can get any manager they want. Me personally, I would prefer Skip Schumaker over Boone of the folks who were available
Team doesn’t need a new manager. They just gotta watch more Tom Emanski….
no surprise. Hal must be ecstatic his yanks.made it to world series.
i guess it doesn’t matter that yankees have had more humiliating defeats in postseason under Boone than anyone else.
Somewhere Grady Little is throwing his remote control against the wall.
He was thoroughly outmanaged by Roberts. Does any more need to be said as to how bad he is?
Does a NYY manager have control over who is chosen to play, and if they did, wouldn’t they choose players who can perform the fundamentals properly? Asking for a Dodgers fan.
I think he’s a puppet. Only good thing he’s done for the Yankees is hit a lucky homerun in 2003.