The Yankees are keeping Aaron Boone in the dugout for 2027.
According to the Bergen Record’s Pete Caldera, Boone will return for his 10th season as New York’s manager. He was already signed through 2027, the final year of the two-year, $10.5MM extension he agreed to in February 2025. There’s not much drama around the situation, and it would not be a shock if the Yankees extended him again this offseason so he can avoid “lame-duck status” in the last year of his deal.
Boone’s path with the club has been steady from a contract standpoint. His first Yankees deal covered three years with a club option for 2021, and the team allowed that agreement to play out before handing him another three-year contract with a club option for 2025 in October 2021. New York picked up that 2025 option after the Yankees reached the 2024 World Series, and Boone’s current deal followed not long after.
His record in the job has been strong by most measures. Boone is 790-565 as manager and has posted a winning season in each of his nine years on the job.
Under his watch, the Yankees have won three AL East titles and reached the playoffs eight times. Their 2024 pennant marked the deepest postseason run of Boone’s tenure, and he now ranks seventh all-time among Yankees managers in both wins and games managed.
The criticism, though, is easy to find. The names ahead of Boone on the Yankees’ all-time managerial wins list all won at least one World Series, and that difference hangs over his tenure.
New York has not won a title since 2009, and its only pennant under Boone ended with the Dodgers beating the Yankees in five games. The club is 1-2 in three ALCS appearances under Boone, and the last two postseasons have followed the same rough script: beat the Red Sox in the Wild Card Series, then fall to the AL East champions in the ALDS, with a four-game loss to the Blue Jays in 2025 and a three-game sweep by the Rays this October.
Some of those exits have been ugly, especially when the defense has let the Yankees down. That has fueled complaints from Boone’s detractors that he has not drilled the basics hard enough. And while New York has been excellent over the long haul in the regular season, the critics point to a pattern of dominating lesser opponents and running into trouble against better clubs.
Still, Boone has plenty of support inside the room. Many managers would gladly take his résumé, and his players have consistently backed him. After the ALDS loss to the Rays, Cam Schlittler and Aaron Judge were among the Yankees who stood up for Boone, and Judge has long been the most visible clubhouse voice in his corner.
That same stability appears likely to extend beyond Boone. Fans may want change from Boone and longtime general manager Brian Cashman, but owner Hal Steinbrenner has not shown any sign that he is dissatisfied with either man. Cashman’s contract expires after the 2026 season, though he is expected to land a new deal and return for a 30th year as general manager.
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