Aaron Boone has the support of one former Yankees manager to keep his job after another failed season ended in the ALDS.
Former skipper Joe Girardi, the last Yanks manager to lead the team to a World Series title, went to bat for Boone during an appearance on “The Show with Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman” released Tuesday.
Indications are Boone will return to The Bronx next season, but calls for his job have come since the Yankees were swept out of the playoffs by the Rays last week. A poll conducted by The Post showed that more than 10,000 out of 12,507 voters wanted to see Boone given the boot.
But when asked if Boone had a shelf life, Girardi said he didn’t think so.
“I think you could argue this was his best year of managing,” Girardi said on the show. “I think he got the most out of this team during the course of the season with all they had to deal with. And the way they won games, he had to flip the way they won games. They had to win them from a pitching standpoint, different from some of the years past where they would win by just outslugging people. He couldn’t do that this year. And I think he ran the bullpen extremely well and got the most out of those guys.”
When it came to one major issue during the 2026 season for the Yankees, Girardi felt it was the lineup but argued that its struggles shouldn’t lie at the feet of Boone.
“Can you say that that’s his fault? I don’t think so,” Girardi said. “To me, that’s not his fault. I just don’t think the guys had the years that they projected them to have, or some of the guys just aren’t as good as they thought they would be.”
Boone has managed the Yankees for nine seasons and the ballclub has only reached the World Series once during his time as skipper.
