I don't think Boone is a good manager at all but this year's failure is clearly more on Cashman. How much more leeway does he have with the Yankees front office?
5.5 games behind WC3 with SEA, NYY and BOS ahead of them and CLE 0.5 games behind them
With no Mike Trout for the foreseeable future. And a very tough schedule in August.
When you're so scared of the backlash that would come from trading an icon than you let your return for him dwindle to a draft pick. And miss the chance to trade him for a haul that could have helped your team 10 times more.
Want to see a ton of wins here while our division and WC rivals have to play each other... During that particular stretch the other AL East teams are mostly playing each other or against the Astros and Twins so that's excellent.
It's not easy to assemble an entire starting rotation by trade and free agency and not kill the budget but they pretty much did just that
But damn would it be nice to see some guys coming up through the system that can stick as high quality starters