TAMPA — Aaron Boone’s first time managing a baseball team at any level produced a 100-win season, a wild-card game victory and finished two ALDS wins shy of going to the ALCS.
Yet, when those two victories against the blood-rival Red Sox didn’t come and sent the Yankees into the offseason, loud voices screamed that Boone’s decisions to stick with Luis Severino and CC Sabathia in Games 3 and 4 were mortal sins. Self-loathing Yankees fans called for Boone’s head to roll down River Ave.
As Boone sat in his George M. Steinbrenner Field office Friday, losing to the Red Sox stuck with him.