Hal Steinbrenner plans to have Aaron Boone return to Yankees

TAMPA, Fla, — New York Yankees proprietor Hal Steinbrenner plans to maintain Aaron Boone as his supervisor.

“So far as Boone’s involved, we simply signed him and for all the identical causes I listed a yr in the past, I consider he’s an excellent supervisor,” Steinbrenner stated Wednesday as he left the Yankees participant improvement advanced. “I do not see a change there.”

Boone agreed final October to a three-year take care of a workforce choice for 2025. In his fifth season as supervisor, New York sprinted to a 61-23 report in early July, sparking comparability with the 1998 champion Yankees. However hampered by accidents, the Yankees went 38-40 the remainder of the way in which.

Cleveland prolonged the Division Sequence to 5 video games earlier than New York was swept in 4 video games by Houston within the AL Championship Sequence.

The Yankees haven’t appeared within the World Sequence since successful their twenty seventh championship in 2009.

Steinbrenner declined to deal with the pending free company of outfielder Aaron Decide.

Within the hours earlier than opening day, Decide turned down a seven-year contract that may have paid $213.5 million from 2023-29, selecting as a substitute to stay eligible at no cost company after the World Sequence.

He set an American League report with 62 homers, tied for the foremost league lead with 131 RBI and completed second within the AL with a .311 batting common. However he hit simply .139 with three RBI and 15 strikeouts within the postseason, going 1 for 16 (.063) with no RBI in opposition to the Astros.

Steinbrenner spent Monday at Yankee Stadium with normal supervisor Brian Cashman for early discussions in regards to the upcoming offseason.

“We have not talked about something but,” Steinbrenner stated. “Money and I had some preliminary conversions.”

Cashman, the GM since 1998, is ending a five-year contract.