Yankees general manager Brian Cashman is why Boone is manager; and quite frankly, I’m getting tired of watching him do his Jeff Dunham impression this season with Boone as the ‘tipping his cap’ puppet.
Can anyone really believe that Yankees’ owners, Hal and Hank, would have entrusted the helm of their club to a manager with zero coaching experience without putting Boone on a very short Cashman leash? This after arriving to within one game of the World Series the prior season.
The “bottom line” conscience Steinbrenners are now entirely under the spell of Brian Cashman, due to his very impressive success in getting the Yanks’ payroll below the luxury tax threshold, all the while rebuilding the club’s farm system, and constructing this championship caliber team on the fly.