NEW YORK -- Joe Torre made a Sunday morning decision to use his MLB disciplinarian powers and suspend Yankees manager Aaron Boone for a game for accidental cap-bill contact with an ump during an in-game argument two nights earlier.
No surprise there.
Torre had to do it.
And, really, it was no surprise that bench coach Josh Bard ran the Yankees dugout similarly to Boone during his one-game promotion to interim manager because, well, all of that outside assumption that decisions are being made based on what the team's analytical staff comes up with was all but confirmed.