SAN ANTONIO — Several of Aaron Boone’s postseason decisions backfired , but it’s unlikely that will prevent the Yankees from picking up his 2025 option to return as manager.
On Tuesday, general manager Brian Cashman defended Boone’s handling of the team in the postseason, which ended with a loss to the Dodgers in Game 5 of the World Series.
“The manager’s job is so impossible that you can play the game of second-guessing because you are either going to make a move and it will be right or make a move and it will be wrong and then have at it, right?” Cashman said at the GM meetings. “I think he’s a really good manager.
“We’re lucky to have him, he’s done a great job. It’s a very hard job to do and it gets harder in the postseason, because whatever you do either works or it doesn’t and there is no gray area.”
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Most notably, Boone summoned Nestor Cortes (who hadn’t pitched in five weeks) for the 10th inning in Game 1 of the World Series.