The conclusion to the last managerial search of 2017 ended on Friday as news broke that Aaron Boone will become the next Yankees manager. Boone, who has spent the past eight years covering baseball at ESPN, now faces the task of taking a young and talented Yankees’ roster and improving on their early success.
Boone doesn’t have any experience to bring to his new job, but he does have a well-known connection to Yankees’ lore. Boone’s home run in the 11th inning of Game Seven of the 2003 ALCS off Tim Wakefield sent the Yankees to the World Series.