NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 23: Former Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera, who will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this year, gets a hug from Old Timer David Cone during Old Timer's Day festivities before an MLB baseball game between the New York Yankees and Houston Astros on June 23, 2019 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx borough of New York City. (Photo by Paul Bereswill/Getty Images)
As a frustrated, baffled and now-sedated Yankees fan watching the 2021 season’s exercise in lifelessness, my mind keeps wandering back to one question: could anyone else possibly do a worse job of managing the various pieces of this team than Aaron Boone?