SI.com | Gary Phillips: The Yankees recently announced their coaching staff, and manager Aaron Boone, Mike Harkey, and Eric Chávez are the only ones with major league experience as players. That doesn’t bother the skipper at all.
The rest of the group includes Luis Rojas, Carlos Mendoza, Dillon Lawson, Casey Dykes, Matt Blake, Desi Druschel, Travis Chapman and Tanner Swanson. However, Boone suggests times have changes, and prior MLB experience as players is no longer as important as other things. In fact, considering coaches that didn’t play in MLB could open the door for a new generation of quality coaches that were blocked off previously.