Jorge Posada’s comment this week that he hasn’t felt welcome by the New York Yankees makes for an awkward headline, especially coming from one of the franchise’s best offensive players from the late 90s and 2000s. Posada has multiple World Series rings and plenty of winning experience, so the question isn’t whether the Yankees should repair that relationship. It’s whether any of it would actually move the needle on their chase for a 28th championship.
That’s the bigger point here: the Yankees’ problem is bigger than Aaron Boone. Swapping out the manager might change the conversation, but it doesn’t automatically change the results. The club has churned through a lot of roster turnover over the years, even as Aaron Judge has become the best player in baseball.
The core around Judge that won his first MVP in 2022 is already gone. Even the 2024 club that reached the World Series looked very different from the one they’re rolling with now. The names keep changing, but the postseason ending has stayed frustratingly familiar.
Boone has been the face of it for a long stretch, but plenty of these title-less seasons didn’t happen under him. Before Boone, the Yankees had similar trouble under Joe Girardi, who won the World Series as a skipper in 2009 but still couldn’t get them consistently over the top in the American League afterward. The issue runs deeper than the guy in the dugout.
Look around the league, and the contrast is pretty clear. The Dodgers, fresh off back-to-back championships, don’t have an all-time great running the clubhouse.
Dave Roberts was a small part of the Dodgers as a bench piece before he was traded to the Red Sox in 2004. The Brewers, the current league champions, also don’t lean on a legendary playing résumé at manager; Pat Murphy never made it out of Low-A.
What those teams do share is a front office built around sharp data use and modern decision-making. On the Dodgers’ side, Andrew Friedman arrived after coming from the Rays, a team that keeps finding ways to compete despite one of the lowest payrolls. In Milwaukee, Matt Arnold is the current President of Baseball Operations, and he spent nine seasons with the Rays and also worked with Friedman.
That’s why calls to copy the Rays or Brewers are really about the front office, not the uniforms or the style of play. For the Yankees, that would mean changing who’s steering the ship above the manager’s office. It would mean moving on from Brian Cashman, and that doesn’t appear to be the direction Hal Steinbrenner wants to go.
Steinbrenner has clearly valued the stability Cashman has provided. The Yankees keep reaching the postseason and staying in the mix, even if they keep coming up short. That steady state also keeps the stadium full during the regular season, and that matters.
So if the Yankees did turn to Posada as manager, there’s no guarantee the ending would look any different than it has since 2010. Fans could still end up calling for his ouster just like they’ve done with Boone. The bigger fix would have to come from more forward-thinking voices in charge behind the manager, and that would require a leap Steinbrenner hasn’t made yet.
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