BRADENTON, Fla. — Aaron Boone doesn’t have a contract past the 2025 season. That might change quickly, although.
Brian Cashman, talking on the Pirates’ complicated in Bradenton for Grapefruit League Media Day, mentioned the Yankees and Boone are actively discussing a brand new deal.
“Our intent is to find an extension, so certainly I’ve been working through that and Hal Steinbrenner has been working through that with Aaron Boone,” the final supervisor mentioned Friday. “Hopeful at some point, sooner than later, that we’ll be able to cement something. But obviously haven’t gotten there yet.”
Requested if such a pact may very well be signed earlier than spring coaching ends subsequent month, Cashman added, “I think so, yeah.”
Earlier this week, Boone additionally famous that the subject of an extension has been mentioned. In the meantime, Steinbrenner mentioned to count on such discussions throughout an interview with the YES Community in late January.
“Nothing’s happened yet,” the 51-year-old Boone mentioned. “I know there have been some talks around that. That’ll handle itself and work itself out. The reality is I’m so fired up to be here today and to get to work for this organization and for Hal that hopefully something does work out. There’s no other place I’d rather be, and no other team I’d rather be doing it with. So we’ll see how that stuff plays out. But we at least have had some talks.”
Boone took the Yankees to the World Collection for the primary time in his managerial profession final season. He then had a crew possibility for the 2025 season picked up a couple of days later.
This coming marketing campaign will mark Boone’s eighth as Yankees supervisor. He’s the seventh-winningest skipper in franchise historical past with a 603-429 report.
Whereas the previous third baseman has sturdy assist in his clubhouse, he’s been ridiculed by followers all through his time with the Bombers regardless of taking the crew to the playoffs in all however one season, 2023.
Requested about criticism of Boone, Cashman mentioned it merely “comes with the job.”
“The one thing I’m so impressed with is his temperament. There’s a lot of slings and arrows coming our way,” Cashman continued. “He’s handled the ups and downs, the successes, the failures, all the same way. And I think that is a strength. That is a benefit.
“I know that if he wasn’t the Yankee manager, it would be a feeding frenzy for him to be a manager that’s coveted elsewhere.”
