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Despite Aaron Judge having another MVP-caliber season, the Yankees’ season has derailed. The team looked poised to run away with the American League East, but it has lost 15 of its last 21 games.
The Yankees were in second place in the AL East entering play on Friday. They were below .500 in the month of June, and there are serious concerns about their ability to make a deep run.
Aaron Boone told his team that he still views them as the best team in baseball, according to The Athletic’s Chris Kirschner. However, Gary Sheffield Jr., son of a former Yankees All-Star, Gary Sheffield, thinks Aaron Boone is who’s holding the Yankees back.
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“Personally, and as always I will speak for myself, I believe the New York Yankees need a new voice and direction in the clubhouse at manager,” Sheffield Jr. wrote on X. “There is just too much going on in a bad way to possibly overlook what’s going on from a leadership/X’s and O’s standpoint to ignore.”
Sheffield played three seasons with the Yankees. He was the MVP runner-up with the team in 2004. He was an All-Star for the Yankees in 2004 and 2005, and won Silver Slugger Awards both years as well.
Sheffield was a nine-time All-Star, five-time Silver Slugger, batting champion and World Series champion. His son outlined why he thinks Boone needs to go.
“You can be a great person and still not be the correct person for the job,” Sheffield Jr. wrote on X. “This is more so about what type of voice the Yankees would be able to now focus on and that voice very clearly should be one of accountability and sound adjustment. The Yankees from a day to day standpoint don’t make sense. How they build lineup. How they rest players. How they choose which positions players will play and when. How much players are failing improving. How players are displaying uncharacteristically low IQ’s on defense. Base running, the list goes on.”
Sheffield Jr. is currently the host of the “Yankees Unloaded” podcast on YouTube. If the Yankees do not start playing better baseball, more people could start to question Boone’s job.
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