Comments on: In which I narrow down the Yankees managerial search to two candidates http://bronx.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/12/01/in-which-i-narrow-down-the-yankees-managerial-search-to-two-candidates/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Thu, 06 Dec 2018 13:34:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Thomas Cassidy http://bronx.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/12/01/in-which-i-narrow-down-the-yankees-managerial-search-to-two-candidates/#comment-13163 Sat, 02 Dec 2017 13:15:40 +0000 http://bronx.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=9593#comment-13163 They Went With the White Guy!!

Every Yankee manager in the history of the franchise has been a white guy. Given this overwhelming evidence of institutional racism, I do not see how to take this choice—over CLEARLY superior candidates—as continued evidence of same. The people on this board who want to deny that are living in denial!
That’s not all that’s wrong with this choice.
Aaron Boone comes with a built-in alibi—he’s new at this. This suggests to me that the Yankees are not all in on winning. They are all in on hiring an organization guy. This is an organization devoted to Steinbrenner billions. That’s where they are going. You can put aside ideas of another dynasty; these Yankees are committed to being competitive, but not to winning.
Aaron Boone is a name. Fans know him. He will be popular. He will make the Steinbrenners another million dollars richer. That’s all he was hired to do.
Let’s hope he exceeds expectations.

]]> By: E.J. Fagan http://bronx.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/12/01/in-which-i-narrow-down-the-yankees-managerial-search-to-two-candidates/#comment-13154 Fri, 01 Dec 2017 22:12:19 +0000 http://bronx.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=9593#comment-13154 Meulens. If Beltran is sincerely interested in a career in coaching, I’m sure someone would love to make him a hitting coach.

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