It’s still too early to tell if Yankees general manager Brian Cashman made the right or wrong moves with those two controversial manager decisions that followed a fun 2017 baseball season.
We may not get the answer for years.
For sure, the decision to dump proven winner Joe Girardi following a long and surprising playoff run with a youngish ballclub was gutsy, then hiring Aaron Boone as the successor with no coaching or managing experience at any level was as risky as anything Cashman has done in his two decades of running the Yanks.
Almost a full season into Boone’s rookie year as a big-league skipper, what stands out most is the Yankees’ 90-56 record.