Source: www.sbnation.com --- Sunday, December 03, 2017
Sunday’s Say Hey, Baseball talks managers, baby. The Yankees long, drawn-out managerial search came to an end (at least publicly) Friday evening when Bill Madden reported Aaron Boone had been chosen. Boone played for the Yankees spent one half of a season with the Yankees during his playing career in 2003, the year he was an All-Star and ALCS hero before the team fell to the Marlins in the World Series. In his 12-year career, he spent time with the Reds, the Yankees, the Indians, the Marlins, the Nationals, and the Astros, posting a career 10.00 fWAR, a .327 wOBA and a 93 wRC+. His career ended in 2009 after he underwent an open heart surgery for an existing condition, and he signed on with ESPN, where he’s been since, that offseason. The official announcement of his hiring is expected to drop sometime this week. Though that dry rundown of his resume leaves out praise of his plus communication skills, which Yankees ownership often emphasizes, it doesn’t leave out any front office or coaching experience because, uh, he has none. He won out on the position over one other former player with no coaching experience, Carlos Beltran. The other four candidates included one former manager and three current coaches. (Yankees bench coach Rob Thomson was a candidate and used at least one too many exclamation points in telling Joel Sherman there were “ no hard feelings ” for me to believe him.) Just about every corner of Baseball at least di ...
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