{"id":87777,"date":"2025-08-10T09:01:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T09:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=87777"},"modified":"2025-08-10T09:01:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T09:01:58","slug":"yankees-insider-blames-damaging-aaron-boone-blunders-on-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=87777","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Insider Blames Damaging Aaron Boone Blunders On &#8216;Organization&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Aaron-Boone-Michael-Kay.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Aaron-Boone-Michael-Kay.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Aaron-Boone-Michael-Kay.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Aaron-Boone-Michael-Kay.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Yankees Insider Blames Damaging Aaron Boone Blunders On 'Organization'\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Boone is just a puppet pf the New York Yankees organization, an insider says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The New York Yankees\u2019 seemingly endless tailspin continued on Friday night, as closer Devin Williams \u2014 acquired in a high-profile offseason trade for lefty starter Nestor Cortes and infield prospect Caleb Durbin \u2014 suffered his third late-inning meltdown in the past week.<\/p>\n<p>While manager Aaron Boone\u2019s latest failed usage of Williams has Yankees fans practically begging for the team to fire him, one longtime Yankee insider took a different view on Friday, saying that Boone is simply implementing the organization\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n<p>Williams came in to the top of the 10th inning in a game against the Houston Astros at Yankee Stadium, and, with Jose Altuve as the automatic runner on second base, immediately uncorked a wild pitch. He followed that by allowing an RBI single to Carlos Correa \u2014 and then, two batters later, a two-out, two run home run by lefty-swinging outfielder Taylor Trammell.<\/p>\n<p>The score was then 5-2. New York managed a run in the bottom of 10th on an RBI single by Anthony Volpe. But that was all.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees absorbed their sixth loss in their last seven games, falling to 6 1\/2 games out of first place in the American League East and barely hanging to a one-half game lead over the Cleveland Guardians for the third and final AL Wild Card spot with only 46 games left to play.<\/p>\n<h2>Boone\u2019s Repeated Reliance on Williams Questioned<\/h2>\n<p>The real question, however, is why Boone brought Williams into the game in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old has already collected five losses and blown three saves this season, with a bloated 5.73 ERA over 48 appearances. But the numbers barely capture how bad Williams has been.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWilliams surely deserves blame for his performance on Friday, but so does Boone,\u201d wrote Chris Kirschner, Yankees correspondent for <em>The Athletic<\/em> in his Friday night report. \u201cIt is inexcusable that Williams was in the game at that moment, and beyond overdue for him to be removed completely from a high-leverage role.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Yankees Fans Beg For Boone\u2019s Firing<\/h2>\n<p>The repeated reliance on Williams has been just one issue with Boone that has Yankee-watchers repeatedly calling for his scalp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother loss that didn\u2019t have to happen, another night in which Boone\u2019s decision-making drove this team deeper into the ditch,\u201d wrote Bleeding Yankee Blue founder Robert Casey after Friday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>Casey, as he and other Yankees observers have done repeatedly this season, called on team owner Hal Steinbrenner to relieve Boone of his duties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHal, if you\u2019re out there,\u201d Casey continued, \u201cthis manager is a walking L. Pull the plug. Fire Boone. And do it before the only thing left to manage is how empty Yankee Stadium will be in September.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Michael Kay Blames Boone\u2019s Bosses<\/h2>\n<p>But one longtime Yankees insider, Michael Kay \u2014 who has broadcast Yankees games, first on radio then on the Yankees cable network YES, since 1992 \u2014 took a different view, blaming Boone\u2019s questionable managing style and decision-making not on the 52-year-old, eighth-year manager himself \u2014 but on Steinbrenner, general manager Brian Cashman and the entire Yankees\u2019 organization \u2014 who keep Boone aboard because he is simply following their directives, Kay said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not anti-Boone the way most are because I think that Aaron Boone is managing the way the organization wants him to manage,\u201d said the broadcaster, speaking on his radio program, The Michael Kay Show prior to Friday\u2019s devastating defeat. \u201cThose are the rules of engagement. This is his eighth year. He\u2019s always managed this way. And they just gave him a two-year contract extension at the beginning of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For fans desperate to see Boone replaced, Kay\u2019s belief that the manager\u2019s superiors are in full approval of his performance can only make an already-disappointing 2025 more discouraging.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jonathan Vankin JONATHAN VANKIN is an award-winning journalist and writer who now covers baseball and other sports for Heavy.com. He twice won New England Press Association awards for sports feature writing. He was a sports editor and writer at The Daily Yomiuri in Tokyo, Japan, covering Japan Pro Baseball, boxing, sumo and other sports. More about Jonathan Vankin<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top longtime Yankees insider now says that manager Aaron Boone is not entirely to blame for his own costly mistakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":87778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yankees Insider Blames Damaging Aaron Boone Blunders On &#039;Organization&#039; - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=87777\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yankees Insider Blames Damaging Aaron Boone Blunders On &#039;Organization&#039; - 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