Aaron Boone: Making sense of the Yankees new manager

The New York Yankees have named their next manager, choosing former player and ESPN analyst Aaron Boone. Was it the right choice?

According to New York Daily News, the New York Yankees have named Aaron Boone their new manager. Boone will be replacing the recently fired Joe Girardi.

Girardi left some rather large shoes to fill, having the highest winning percentage in baseball during his time as Yankees skipper. The man filling those shoes is one who has zero managerial experience.

Since retiring from baseball in 2010, Boone has been an analyst for ESPN, appearing on Monday Night Baseball, Baseball Tonight, and most recently Sunday Night Baseball.

Boone had a rather pedestrian career as a player but the highlight of his career came as a member of the Yankees. Boone’s walk-off home run in Game 7 of the ALCS against the Boston Red Sox sent New York to the World Series and extended Boston’s “Curse of the Bambino”.

Aaron has been around baseball his whole life with his father Bob Boone being a major league catcher and manager. Hopefully, Aaron will have more managerial success than his father, as Bob never led a team to an above-.500 record in six seasons.

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Is Aaron Boone ready to lead the New York Yankees? Well, it’s hard to tell considering his lack of experience. It’s tough to set expectations for 2018 and beyond.

Personally, if the Yankees were going to pick a manager with no experience, I would have preferred Carlos Beltran. Beltran has only been retired a few weeks but I think not being out of the game too long would have benefitted him and the Yankees. Beltran also knew more about the Yankees roster considering he was a part of it in 2016.

Fortunately, Beltran’s baseball mind could still be with the Yankees in some capacity next year.

Also, when it appeared to come down to Hensley Meulens and Aaron Boone, I expected Meulens to be the Yankees’ choice. Meulens has been coaching since 2003 and was recently named the San Francisco Giants bench coach after eight years as their hitting coach. People also seemed to make a big deal of Meulens being able to speak five languages and he has a good relationship with Didi Gregorius from the Dutch World Baseball Classic team.

As things stand, Aaron Boone will be the next manager of the New York Yankees. It was a bit of a surprise but he was Brian Cashman’s choice. Hopefully, he’ll follow Joe Girardi as successfully as Girardi followed Joe Torre.

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This Yankees team is on the rise and ready to compete for championships. Will Aaron Boone be able to take New York to the next step and bring home a 28th Commissioner’s Trophy? We’ll have to wait and see.

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