Sweeny: Boone Overcame Concerns About Inexperience To Win Yankees Job
When Aaron Boone was a player, his teammates thought he was practicing to be a TV announcer as he sat on the bench doing play-by-play to entertain them.
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When Aaron Boone was a player, his teammates thought he was practicing to be a TV announcer as he sat on the bench doing play-by-play to entertain them.
Coming across as a good communicator, in part, helped Aaron Boone win the job as next Yankees manager. Those of us in the media already knew of his communication skills, as we listened to him analyze games weekly on ESPN's "Sunday Night Baseball."
It was a done deal, right up until it wasn't.
Aaron Boone will get a chance to be a Yankees hero again.
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said Friday he's ready to recommend to owner Hal Steinbrenner his choice for the team's next manager.
The Yankees just might have the ammo needed to make a deal for Giancarlo Stanton, potentially creating a powerful combo with Aaron Judge.
There has been all this talk about connecting to players and communicating with the guys in the clubhouse, yet no one has done it like Carlos Beltran.
Carlos Beltran has interviewed to become manager of the New York Yankees, four weeks after the final game of his 20-year major league career.
Andy Pettitte credits the way the Yankees battled back to win the 1996 World Series for the success he and his teammates had down the road.
After pulling the strings that helped the Yankees finish within one win of the World Series, general manager Brian Cashman was named Baseball America's Executive of the Year on Tuesday.
If you're wondering why the Yankees haven't hired a new manager yet, you need not worry. They are literally the only team looking for one.
Brian Cashman might well have offered a small, silent prayer of thanks to the MLB Players Association before he gobbled down his turkey dinner Thursday.
The New York City area has had a championship dry spell since, well, I submitted my first Thanksgiving post six years ago.
MLB owners are scheduled to vote for ratification on Dec. 1, and Otani is expected to be posted then or the following day, the report said.
Apparently Aaron Judge's shoulder was acting up during his record-breaking rookie season.
New York has the second-highest total of available international signing bonus money behind the Texas Rangers at $3,535,000.
Now that we've recovered from the abject mystery and misery of firing Joe Girardi, we can pseudo-focus on the next guy while we scratch our scalps.
It doesn't really matter that Aaron Judge came in second in the American League MVP voting to Jose Altuve last week. What matters is that Judge was, without a doubt, the Yankees' MVP.
We see it all the time in football -- a successful team has its coaching staff raided by other teams looking to copy the magic formula to winning.
There are people we call baseball lifers. And then there is Aaron Boone, part of one of the most accomplished families in the sport.
The Yankees on Friday interviewed one of the franchise's past postseason heroes for its managerial opening.
Politicians often brand Big Apple Mayor the second-hardest job in our republic. The only harder and hotter seat than Gracie Mansion is the Oval Office.
It takes a Yankee fan of a different generation to remember the name Hensley Meulens, or his nickname "Bam-Bam."
Aaron Judge's bid to become just the third player in major league history to win Rookie of the Year and Most Valubable Player in the same season fell short Thursday, as Astros second baseman Jose Altuve was named American League MVP.
Hensley Meulens has become the third candidate to interview for New York Yankees manager after Rob Thomson and Eric Wedge.
