Yankees news: Manager Aaron Boone likely to return in 2025

SNY | Andy Martino: The body of the 2024 season is still warm, but we’ve already received word that the Yankees are expected to bring manager Aaron Boone back in 2025. The team holds on option for 2025 that they are expected to exercise, rumors suggesting that keeping his job for an eighth season was contingent upon winning at least one postseason series.

The front office stands behind the manager’s decision to use Nestor Cortes out of the bullpen in the 10th inning of Game 1, a move that backfired with a Freddie Freeman grand slam that seemed to leave the team shellshocked for the following two games. (The team’s questionable mental lapses all year also returned with a vengeance in Game 5.) There’s speculation that the Yankees could look to extend Boone beyond next season since they don’t typically go for lame ducks, but for now 2025 is all that has been discussed.

Yahoo! Sports | Jack Baer: The wait goes on for the Yankees’ 28th title, the Dodgers overturning a five-run deficit in Game 5 to win the World Series. A pair of errors by Aaron Judge and Anthony Volpe (plus a faux pas at first base) allowed five Dodgers to score in the fifth inning despite Gerrit Cole carrying a no-hitter into the frame. When the season is on the line, these are simply the types of mistakes that you cannot make.

Defensive miscues and managerial decisions cost the Yankees at least two wins in the Fall Classic, and the front office has the next few months to analyze the team’s shortcomings and hopefully craft a solution to fix them. On paper, this looked like it would be an evenly matched series, but the games are played out on the field where the Dodgers were the clearly superior team when looking at all aspects of play. Congratulations to the Dodgers; the Yankees did not deserve to win and now they have to reflect on why.

ESPN: Prior to the start of Game 5, the Yankees announced that they had banned the two fans ejected who interfered with Mookie Betts, pinning his arm to the wall and prying the ball out of his glove after he had caught a Gleyber Torres foul fly ball to right in the first inning. The fans were refunded the cost of the tickets, but instead of allowing them to transfer their Game 5 seats to relatives, the Yankees gave the seats to a pediatric cancer patient and his family while also warning the banned fans that they would be arrested if they tried to attend Game 5.

The Athletic | Mark Puleo ($): There have been a handful of high-profile fan interference moments in the postseason, so of course we had to hear from the man at the center of the most infamous one involving the Yankees. Jeffrey Maier famously reached down over the wall in right to pull a Derek Jeter fly ball into the stands against the Orioles in Game 1 of the 1996 ALCS.

Now 28 years later, the 40-year-old Maier reflected on his infamous catch and drew a distinction between his actions and the inexcusable ones of the two fans who snatched the ball out of Betts’ glove and were later ejected and banned. Maier sympathized that in the heat of the moment, instincts take over, but he also felt that the actions of the ejected fans firmly crossed the line between reflexive and premeditated.

New York Post | Jorge Fitz-Gibbon: It’s not often that you get to live out your childhood dream, particularly when that dream is to play for the New York Yankees. You have to say, then, that lifelong Yankee fan Anthony Volpe hitting a grand slam in Game 4 of the World Series to keep his team’s hopes alive is the stuff fairy tales are made out of. Volpe reflected on the origin of his love for the Yankees, starting with his great-grandfather, a WWII vet who first met his son (Volpe’s grandfather) after returning from the war, the bedrock of that father-son relationship built on following the Yankees together.