FORT MYERS, Fla. — As one question about the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry was followed by five more, Aaron Boone sat in the first-base dugout Saturday at JetBlue Park and told a story about the night he became a Yankee at the 2003 trade deadline.
“When I got traded by the Reds, that night we were hanging out in the clubhouse in Cincinnati, hanging out and saying goodbyes and Tim Naehring was there,’’ Boone said of the Yankees’ VP of baseball operations today and a minor league field coordinator for the Reds then. “Obviously, he played in Boston and he said, ‘You have no idea what you are walking into.