Posted on 12/02/2017 12:18:32 PM PST by ColdOne
The New York Yankees have picked ESPN broadcaster and former player Aaron Boone to succeed Joe Girardi as manager, according to reports.
Now 44, Boone has never been a manager or even a coach at any level since retiring as a player after the 2009 season.
His 11th-inning home run off Boston's Tim Wakefield won Game 7 of the AL Championship Series for the Yankees against Boston.
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Well with data analytics, I guess it has become more important for a manager to have fan appeal over experience. That and the ability to do the GM’s bidding. Boy, how do I miss those boys of 1950’s summers.
So because of a walk off home run in a key playoff game, years later he’s rewarded by getting the managers job?
I never understand certain things.
One such is, why was successful manager Joe Girardi let go? He took a team that wasnt really expected to be a contender, to within a game of the World Series.
Dusty Baker won consecutive division titles in Washington, but that achievement got him fired.
I don’t understand how successful managers/coaches in sports, sometimes are inexplicably terminated.
Time will tell, but if Aaron Boone does not make it to within a game of the world series, or make the world series itself, won’t that indicates that firing Joe Girardi was a mistake?
With zero managing or coaching experience. Zero. None.
I like Boone, but all he’s done since retiring is sit in the Sunday Night Baseball booth and talk about the game. And I haven’t found his comments particularly insightful. Abundant, but not particularly insightful. Apparently, the definition of a good communicator is that he talks a lot.
Except for Carlos Beltran, all the other candidates — Hensley Meulens, Rob Thomson, Eric Wedge, Chris Woodward — had some coaching and/or managing experience. (I had a favorite candidate in the group.)
This is a YUGE gamble on Brian Cashman’s part. It may be brilliant. it may be the dumbest move he ever made.
Joe Girardi was Yankee manager for 10 yers. I predict Boone won’t last that long. Maybe not even half that long.
At the very least, it will indicate that they picked hte wrong successor (which, IMO, they did.)
Yet total failures like Bryan Price are retained by the hapless Cincy Reds. I guess being an obedient yes man to the front office is more important than winning.
Yankee management and owners obviously have been hanging around with the New York Giants owners and management.
In New York, it's as much about dealing with the media spotlight and attention as it is about running the team. Boone is really jumping in the deep end. I predict he will sink rather than swim.
Baker got the Nats to the postseason yes. But as an in-game manager he is not in the elite. And with the talent on that team.... Was he better than Matt Williams? Oh yeah. But he's never won a championship, and has been to the WS only once (2002 with the Giants) in all his years of managing.
That being said, the Nats just seem to be snake-bit in the post season. They got two great games out of Strasburg against the Cubs, but only managed to win one of those games. Scherzer was just tired I think. We'll see what happens next season...
Boy, how do I miss those boys of 1950’s summers.
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Ready to feel ‘old’???
Is this RAY BOONE’s GRANDSON?????
My all all all time favorite is Pee Wee Reese AND I remember when V Scully did his debut with Brooklyn- I thought he would ‘never’ make it...
Now THAT makes me feel ‘old’.... Scully been around longer than ‘dirt’ and I remember him breaking in...
So what’s the deal? Aaron Boone is well versed in the analytics which people want in managers nowadays?
Aaron Boone has the ability to deal with the tough New York media?
Aaron Boone is being rewarded for that walk off home run in 2003?
Aaron Boone gets along well with Cashman?
Aaron Boone comes from a baseball family, and though lacks coaching experience, his baseball knowledge will carry the day?
It does seem odd, that someone with no managerial or coaching experience, not even any stint in the minor leagues, becomes the manager of a major league team.
Especially when they had candidates who had that kind of background.
Joe Girardi took the Yanks to the 2017 ALCS and he gets canned. Most other teams would have been happy to reach the playoffs. Does anyone else think that the Yank owners were unfair to Girardi and that they hold unrealistic expectations?
Yes, I think so. This was supposed to be a rebuilding year for the Yankees, and it was very successful in that regard.
All Joe did was get them deep into the playoffs, when most observers didn’t expect the Yankees to make the playoffs at all.
Maybe they wanted Joe out for other reasons, and falling short of the World Series gave them their excuse?
Corporate management in a nutshell: Go with the butt kisser over the experienced, successful guy who sometimes bucks the suits.
My prediction: Failure.
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