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New York Post
21-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
Aaron Boone recalls fights with brother Brett before winning first matchup as coaches
Access the Yankees beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees. Try it free As Aaron Boone's pitchers tried to combat Bret Boone's hitters, the jabs were metaphorical. At one point, those Boone vs. Boone punches were literal. Round One of the Boone Bowl — the first matchup between the Yankees manager and his big brother Bret, recently named Rangers hitting coach — brought back memories of two of the sons of Bob Boone, essentially baseball royalty, going at it in their younger days. 'We used to box when we were kids,' Aaron said before beating Bret's Rangers 5-2 in The Bronx on Tuesday. 'I used to wear the headgear, and he wouldn't. So, picture I'm probably 6, he's probably 10, and I popped him good one time. It kind of got him upset, and he took it to me pretty good. 'I'm starting to cry a little bit, and he's like, 'No, you can't cry. We're going to get in trouble.' 'Years later I was thinking: 'We're going to get in trouble? You're going to get in trouble for beating up your little brother.' The fight has become fairer over the years. The two longtime big leaguers had matched up in their playing days but had not gone face-to-face as members of opposing coaching staffs until Tuesday. The Rangers hired Bret as hitting coach on May 5 after firing Donnie Ecker to attempt to breathe life into a flatlining offense. 3 Aaron Boone (right) and Brett Boone (left) pose for a picture with the umpires during the lineup exchange before the Yankees' 5-2 series-opening win over the Rangers on May 20, 2025. Jason Szenes / New York Post Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said Bret Boone — who had no previous coaching experience but ran a podcast and was a three-time All-Star over 14 big league seasons — can bring new ideas to his hitters and help them get 'more involved, invested watching the game.' Aaron and Bret watched each other from opposite dugouts after meeting on the field to exchange lineups before first pitch. The two were appreciative that the timing worked out so Aaron could have his four kids at the game and Bret's two sons attended, an impromptu family reunion. The timing also involved a mutual off-day Monday, when they went out to dinner together. 'He actually paid the bill last night,' Bret said. Giancarlo Stanton is 'toward the endgame of his running program,' though Aaron Boone did not know when the DH would begin a rehab assignment. Stanton is 'doing well,' Boone said, in his rehab from tendon injuries in both elbows. Boone said Stanton will begin getting some live at-bats 'soon,' though he was not sure in what capacity Stanton would be getting those at-bats. After Ben Rice took ground balls at third base before Sunday's game — an interesting development for a positional group that is overflowing at the moment and yet does not have a true third baseman — Boone again downplayed the scene. 3 Ben Rice hits a solo homer in the second inning of the Yankees' win over the Rangers. Jason Szenes / New York Post He said there is value to Rice, a catcher and first baseman, moving his legs at another position for athleticism reasons. He also said that 'you never rule out anything,' leaving the door open for Rice to try the spot later this year. 'You always just want to stick someone at third, and it's not that simple,' said Boone, himself a former third baseman. 'I've seen him over there a couple times and I like how he moves over there and things like that, but it's not much more than that right now.' Rice went 2-for-3 with two RBIs — on a solo home run and sacrifice fly — on Tuesday night. 3 Devin Williams celebrates after striking out Texas Rangers' Adolis García during the eighth inning of the Yankees' win over the Rangers. Getty Images Devin Williams entered play having allowed a run in one of his past nine appearances. The reliever was credited with a hold while pitching an inning, striking out two and allowing a hit on Tuesday. Boone said 'we'll see' whether Williams would reclaim the closing spot that Luke Weaver, who picked up his sixth save in the Yankees' win, has inherited. 'No plans right now,' Boone said.
New York Post
19-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
Yankees vs. Rangers brings unexpected Boone Bowl — 20 years in the making
Access the Yankees beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees. Try it free When the Rangers hired Bret Boone to be their hitting coach earlier this month, Aaron Boone immediately checked the Yankees' schedule. The manager did not have to wait long for the Boone Bowl. The Rangers will arrive in The Bronx on Tuesday, pitting the Boone brothers against each other for the first time since 2005, when Bret's Mariners beat Aaron's Indians in a game at Safeco Field. 'It'll be cool,' Aaron Boone said this weekend. 'I'm looking forward to seeing him, just because I don't see him that much in person throughout the year, so that'll be good. I'm just excited he's in a dugout again, I feel like where he should be, and having a chance to impact some people.' Yankees manager Aaron Boone. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST Rangers hitting coach Bret Boone. AP Since retiring from playing for good in 2008, Bret Boone had been a roving instructor and scout for the Athletics from 2014-15, but otherwise had been out of the game — he did host a podcast centered around baseball — before the Rangers hired him on May 5 after firing offensive coordinator Donnie Ecker. Aaron Boone, in his eighth year as the Yankees' manager, recently said he had talked 'quite a bit' with his older brother (Bret is 56, Aaron 52) since he got the job and that he 'seems to be enjoying it,' calling Bret 'in his element' in the role. There will be some extra Boones in attendance for the series, in addition to Aaron's family — one of Bret's sons is already in Manhattan working for MLB while another will be coming into town for the series. Tyler Matzek became a free agent on Monday after declining an outright assignment to the minors following the Yankees designating him for assignment on Friday. The veteran lefty reliever looked like he might be a steal for the Yankees early in spring training as a minor league sign, but after returning from an oblique injury, did not look as sharp in limited action in the big leagues. The Yankees will insert Ryan Yarbrough back into the rotation on Wednesday after skipping his start over the weekend — taking advantage of an off day last Thursday — so Clarke Schmidt and Max Fried could start against the Mets on normal rest. Will Warren, Tuesday's starter, will already be pitching on his sixth day because of another off day Monday, but having Yarbrough go Wednesday will mean that the rest of the Yankees' starters will also be pitching on their sixth day this turn through the rotation. 'Picking our spots to where we still value that sixth day when we can have it with some guys,' Boone said Sunday. 'The way things line up makes sense. And Yarbs has done a great job for us. But to be able to have him in the pen the last couple days, it gave us a little added protection there. But also feel like he really — gosh, he's pitched so well that he kind of deserves to get in there. 'Over the course of a long season, we don't want to get in the habit of just, when we have the off days, run our guys automatically on that fifth [day]. So valuing that sixth day every now and then too, especially when they've had a couple in a row maybe where they've gone on the fifth day.'
