The Yankees picked up Aaron Boone’s 2025 membership possibility final week, guaranteeing that he’d be again on the helm for an eighth season, however there’s nonetheless no certainty in place past what’s now successfully a one-year pact. Boone informed the Yankees beat this morning that as of this second, there are not any conversations with the Yankees about an extension that will preserve him within the Bronx past the 2025 season (video hyperlink through SNY). Boone additionally revealed that there shall be no less than one change to his teaching workers subsequent 12 months however wasn’t ready to publicly disclose any names (additionally through SNY).
The 2024 season proved to be probably the most profitable below Boone, whose membership reached the World Collection for the primary time since 2009, albeit in what proved to be a shedding effort to the Dodgers. The Yankees’ 94 wins through the common season have been solely Boone’s fourth-highest whole in a single season, however he’d by no means skilled a playoff run of this magnitude prior to now.
On the heels of that exhibiting, it appeared more and more seemingly that Boone would certainly stick round, be it merely through that membership possibility or on a brand new multi-year extension. It’s nonetheless attainable the 2 sides come to phrases on a lengthier association, however the Yankees did let Boone play out your entire 2021 season as a “lame-duck” supervisor on a one-year take care of nothing assured past that exact season till late October.
Boone additionally touched on quite a lot of offseason-centric subjects, although he usually offered anticipated solutions. He confirmed that he’ll be in attendance for the upcoming assembly between proprietor Hal Steinbrenner, Juan Soto and agent Scott Boras. Boone spoke usually of his hopes to be a participant out there for star Japanese right-hander Roki Sasaki however provided little past praising the 23-year-old as a particular and gifted expertise whom the group has been scouting for years.
Maybe most curiously to Yankees followers, Boone was requested about infield prospect Chase Durbin and provided a glowing evaluate, calling him a “stud” and noting that he expects the 24-year-old second baseman/third baseman to play a “massive” position on the 2025 membership. Including both a second baseman or third baseman has been anticipated so far, with Jazz Chisholm Jr. seemingly slotting in on the different place.
It appears unlikely the Yankees would hand the opposite spot proper to Durbin, however he’s coming off a 2024 season throughout which he slashed .287/.396/.471 with extra walks (12.5%) than strikeouts (9.9%) in 375 Triple-A plate appearances. The previous 14th-rounder, who got here to the Yankees from the Braves in 2022’s Lucas Luetge commerce, additionally smacked 10 homers and swiped 31 bases in simply 82 video games with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
Boone touted Durbin’s “nice bat-to-ball” abilities and “elite skill on the bases” and famous that the membership has been working to enhance his versatility with reps at second base, shortstop, third base and within the outfield as a result of the group is bullish on Durbin’s possibilities of serving to the massive league membership before later. None of that precludes an infield acquisition within the subsequent few months, however it does make it a digital certainty that Durbin shall be chosen to the 40-man roster earlier than subsequent week’s Rule 5 safety deadline.
