Yankees Extend Boone’s Contract, Set For Decade At Helm

 

Aaron Boone at the batting cage. Photo by Jason Schott.

The Yankees announced on Thursday morning that they have signed Manager Aaron Boone to a two-year extension that will extend to the 2027 season.

This comes after the Yankees reached the World Series last season, winning the 41st American League pennant in their illustrious history.

Boone, who took over in 2018, has a record of 603-429 in his seven years at the helm, a time in which the Yankees have averaged 95 wins per season, aside from the 60-game season in 2020. 

The Yankees have won three American League East division titles with Boone at the helm, and they have the fourth-best record in Major League Baseball since 2018, behind the Los Angeles Dodgers (656-377), Houston Astros (618-413), and the Atlanta Braves (604-427). The Yankees have won at least 90 games five times under Boone (2018, '19, '21, '22, and '24), one of only three teams to do that since 2018, behind the Dodgers' six times, and Houston's five.

This extension means that Boone is on track to be the Yankees skipper for ten years, matching the tenure of his predecessor, Joe Girardi.

Boone's 603 managerial wins rank seventh on the all-time list, behind Girardi's 910, Ralph Houk's 944, Miller Huggins' 1,067, Casey Stengel's 1,149, Joe Torre's 1,173, and most of all, Joe McCarthy with 1,460.

The 51-year-old Boone is just the second skipper in baseball history to reach the postseason in six of his first seven seasons as a Manager, with the only other one Dave Roberts, who has taken the Dodgers to the playoffs in his first nine seasons in LA. The Dodgers beat the Yankees in the World Series last fall.

The Yankees have won 22 postseason games since 2018, second-most in the A.L. and fourth-most in MLB. They are one of only five teams to make the postseason in six of the past seven seasons, and are only one of three teams to make at the League Championship Series at least three times in that span. They made the ALCS in 2019 and '22, both of which they lost to Houston before returning  in 2024, beating the Cleveland Guardians in five games.