Yankees extend manager Boone's contract though 2027 season

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Aaron Boone and the New York Yankees agreed Thursday to a two-year contract extension through the 2027 season.

Boone is entering his eighth season as manager. The team had exercised his 2025 option in November.

“No other place I want to be. No other team, organization, group of people that I want to be doing this with,” Boone said. “And to get to do it in New York in front of passionate New York Yankee fans, this is the end result that I certainly wanted and glad it was able to work out.”

Boone has led the Yankees to a 603-429 record, three AL East titles and one pennant. New York reached the World Series last year for the first time since 2009, losing to the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games.

Boone became the third Yankees manager to lead the team to the postseason in six of his first seven years after Casey Stengel and Joe Torre but hasn't delivered a title and understands the criticism, saying “if you can't handle that, then it ain't for you” and “I came in eyes wide open."

“I don't like that we haven't won a championship yet, so that bothers me,” Boone said. “But I know what I signed up for when I got into this. We talk about it all the time, but I wouldn't want it any other way. The fact that it matters as much as it does here and that there's such a high standard and there's so much expectations, that so much beats the alternative in my view. I'm confident in what I'm doing. I feel that I'm pretty good at this.”

Boone succeeded Joe Girardi after the 2017 season and was given a three-year contract with a team option for 2021. He agreed in October 2021 to a three-year contract with a team option for 2025.

He was a major league third baseman from 1997 to 2009 and an All-Star in 2003, when New York acquired him from Cincinnati at the trade deadline. His 11th-inning home run off Boston's Tim Wakefield in Game 7 of the AL Championship Series won the pennant.

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