As shared by Garrett Stepien of SNY, New York Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone insisted following Sunday’s 6-4 residence loss to the Tampa Bay Rays that his membership is “higher than” what it has proven amid its summer season swoon.
Throughout a Monday morning chat with WFAN radio hosts Brandon Tierney and Sal Licata, former Yankees star pitcher David Wells mentioned Boone’s alleged “buddy-buddy” relationships with Yankees gamers resembling captain Aaron Decide.
“They’re getting paid a lot cash, I don’t assume they care, to be sincere with you,” Wells mentioned of contemporary ballplayers, per Ryan Chichester of Audacy.
Wells then recalled a time when former skipper Joe Torre wasn’t afraid to offer Yankees legends resembling Derek Jeter and Bernie Williams a chunk of his thoughts early right into a marketing campaign.
“In 1998, we misplaced three of the primary 4 video games of the yr, and Joe Torre was p—–,” Wells defined. “He got here in and laid it on the road. That’s what you desire a supervisor to do. He referred to as everyone out. He referred to as Jeter out, he referred to as Bernie out…and this was the primary 3-4 video games of the season. No matter Joe mentioned, it resonated with everyone. We got here collectively as a group.”
The ’98 Yankees in the end swept the San Diego Padres to win the World Collection.
As for Boone, he guided the Yankees to the playoffs every year from 2018-22 however can also be seen by some as a cause the franchise hasn’t performed in a World Collection because it gained the 2009 Fall Basic. His 59-42 membership limped into the All-Star break, misplaced two of three video games to Tampa Bay to start the second half of the season and went into Monday’s collection finale versus the Rays trailing the first-place Baltimore Orioles (60-39) by two video games within the American League East standings.
“If we might get in slumps,” Wells continued, “we might speak about it. We might sit within the clubhouse after the sport, we’d exit to dinner as a group…and we might speak in regards to the sport and the way we are able to get higher. These guys don’t do it. They’ve their headphones on, they play video video games, they watch movie, movie and movie.”
Considerably apparently, shortstop Francisco Lindor just lately credited group dinners on highway journeys for serving to the New York Mets flip their season round. Boone seemingly is not going to comply with in Torre’s footsteps this summer season, so Yankees leaders resembling Decide could have to carry the clubhouse collectively to get the Bronx Bombers out of their funk no matter what group senior vice chairman and normal supervisor Brian Cashman does earlier than the July 30 commerce deadline.
