NEW YORK — Joe Girardi has an idea what Aaron Boone will face when the Yankees and the rookie manager open their spring training schedule on Feb. 23.
Girardi was a first-time manager with the Florida Marlins in 2006, leaving after a single season, a 78-84 record and repeated disagreements with owner Jeffrey Loria and the front office.
For a big league manager, the job is more than dugout decisions.
“We had some things happen with the Marlins that I was not prepared for, and it was like a crash course in handling things that you don’t expect to have to handle,” Girardi said Wednesday when he started work for the MLB Network.