Should the Yankees move on from manager Aaron Boone?
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Aaron Boone is not going anywhere.
I have been a Boone defender.
I think Aaron Boone is good at what this job entails.
To be the Yankee skipper, your job is to eat crap, protect your guys, and deflect the media.
Keep everybody happy, keep everybody pulling the rope in the same direction.
And I generally think Boone does a good job of that.
Now, there is a point where the results are sloppy enough for long enough that it does bring up questions about certain aspects of the way the Yankees go about it.
Are the Yankees a playoff team?
They have fallen behind the Red Sox in the standings.
Do the Yankees have a chance to win the division?
Do the Yankees have a chance to win the World Series with this current roster, the way they're playing?
I think yes, because the American League still has a lot of questions, but, but it's, it's getting to a, a shakier position faster than I thought, I guess is one way to put it.
And we'll see how this new roster kind of shakes out for, for better or for worse because there are a lot of new characters here that can end up helping or hurting and we know that they they have Luis Severino back, you know, how this rotation ends up shaking out, and we still don't know what the judge situation is.
It sounds like they're expecting to get him back to DH this week, but that is a huge X factor for how this roster functions moving forward that that I can't really speak to.
I still look at this roster.
I'm like, damn, that's a pretty good team, but they are moving towards the where it's like, why would I believe that you're going to suddenly start playing clean baseball.
Now that's the problem, right?
That, that's where you kind of lose me from a confidence level.
But talent wise and roster-wise, it's still looks like one of the best teams in the AL.
Yeah, I think this is a good baseball team.
Now they play worse than their talent all the time.
If they're like a 9 out of if that's talent wise they're like an 8 out of 10.
They play like a 7, or if they are 9, they play like a 7, if they're an 8, they play like a 6.
Guess what?
That's better than a lot of teams.
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