4 Aaron Boone replacements the Yankees should have on speed dial

New York YankeesA postseason dream turned into a nightmare almost overnight. Game 3 of the World Series was depressingly similar as New York’s offense was once again stifled. defeat with a score of 4-2 it gives Los Angeles Dodgers a commanding 3-0 series lead and more or less illuminates the Yankees’ title hopes. It’s still season technically not finished yetmost fans are more than willing to turn their attention to what numbers will be key this offseason.

Juan Soto’s free agency is the ($600) million question, but Brian Cashman has at least one more pressing question: the future of embattled coach Aaron Boone. It’s unclear whether Boone will return for an eighth season in the Bronx, but after a few missteps this World Series feels like it’s long overdue for a change. This begs the question: Who should the Yankees look to as a replacement? Here are three names the team would be crazy not to name.

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It might not be the flashiest name for Cashman, but it would make sense. A former second-round pick of the Yankees back in 2001, Duncan spent three years with the team as a player from 2007 to 2009. After retiring in 2014, he immediately went into coaching, moving from the Diamondbacks to the Blue Jays to the Whites. Sox. He returned to New York last winter when Cashman named him manager of the team’s Triple-A affiliate in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

Duncan’s first season in Scranton wasn’t easy, but he led the RailRiders to an 89-60 record in 2024 while helping develop players like Ben Rice, Everson Pereira and Horbit Vivas. Duncan knows the organization’s methods and priorities and appears to have the talent to lead the club. He also has a pretty impressive background: Duncan’s father, Dave, was one of the best pitching coaches in the sport for decades, producing quality weapons that fueled Tony La Russa’s success. St. Louis Cardinals.

Shoemaker fell victim Miami Marlins” A stunning organizational cleanup, but losing them could be the Yankees’ game. Just last year, Schumaker won the National League Manager of the Year award for helping an undermanned Marlins roster all the way to the postseason, and before that he seemed to be beloved as a bench coach for the Cardinals. Shoemaker’s desire to win conflicted with Miami’s curmudgeonly front office, but he wouldn’t have had the same problems in New York. Maybe he wants to sit for a year and see if, say, St. Louis looking for a new manager next winter. If he’s interested, however, the Yankees will have to hard sell him on his mixture of clubhouse looks and analytical bent.

If Shoemaker isn’t the biggest name available right now, Venable is. He presumably finalist for openings both in Miami and Chicago White SoxAnd his post-playing resume is impressive: Venables began his coaching career as a special assistant to then-Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein, then served as a bench coach for the Red Sox before winning a ring on Bruce Bochy’s coaching staff with the Texans. Rangers.” in 2023. Venable played in college at Princeton, so he’s at least familiar with the tri-state area, and like Shoemaker, his background is a compelling combination of old school (Bochy) and new age (Epstein).

pipe dream? Of course, but hear me out. Before he headed Philadelphia Phillies Prior to three straight postseason berths and one National League pennant, Thomson was a Yankees lifer, spending nearly three decades with the organization from 1990 to 2017. prior to the 2008 season, and he was an integral part of New York’s last title-winning team back in 2009.

Thomson and the Phillies agreed to a contract extension a couple of weeks ago, and Dave Dombrowski gave it to my skipper The vote of confidence enters this offseason. But things are a little tighter in Philadelphia now due to diminishing playoff numbers, and Thomson certainly still has plenty of ties to the Yankees from his time there. He speaks their language and his players clearly enjoy playing for him; New York should at least make him say no.