Aaron Boone will return for his 10th season as manager of the New York Yankees in 2027, a source confirmed to ESPN on Monday, more than a week after the club was eliminated in the American League Division Series for the second straight year. Boone's contract runs through next season to complete a two-year, $10.5 million extension he signed in February 2025. The Yankees hired Boone out of the ESPN broadcast booth to replace Joe Girardi in December 2017.
His tenure has been an unsatisfying mix of consistent regular-season success and constant postseason failure. Boone's .583 winning percentage is tied for 17th in major league history. The Yankees have reached the playoffs in eight of his nine seasons and have not finished worse than two games over .500, extending their MLB-record streak of 34 consecutive winning seasons. But the Yankees have not won a World Series since Girardi led them to the 2009 title. The 17-season drought is the second longest in franchise history.
Under Boone, the Yankees reached the World Series once, losing to the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games in 2024. They advanced to the ALCS twice, losing to the Houston Astros in 2019 and 2022. This season, sloppiness cost them again when they committed three errors in the first inning of Game 2 of the ALDS against the Tampa Bay Rays, and the Rays completed a sweep in Game 3 in New York.
Yankees star Aaron Judge defended his manager after Game 3. "He's our manager," Judge said. "He's running the ship, especially in a season like this." Boone acknowledged the pain of the ending. "It's the worst fricking feeling in the world," he said. The Bergen Record was first to report Boone's return.
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