New York Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone hopes his workforce does this yr what the Dodgers did final season — win a championship.
If that occurs, nonetheless, Boone doesn’t need his gamers to behave in the identical method as some Dodgers gamers have within the aftermath of beating the Yankees within the 2024 World Sequence.
Boone spoke with reporters Tuesday as pitchers and catchers arrived at spring coaching in Tampa, Fla., and was requested how he felt about a few of the Dodgers “speaking trash” in regards to the Yankees in the course of the offseason.
“Don’t like listening to that,” Boone stated. “However the actuality is we didn’t play our greatest within the sequence and so they gained, so that they had that proper to say no matter. Hopefully, we’re in that place subsequent yr and deal with issues with somewhat extra class.”
The Dodgers defeated the Yankees in Recreation 1 and 2 at Dodger Stadium, then gained Recreation 3 and misplaced Recreation 4 at Yankee Stadium. In Recreation 5, additionally within the Bronx, the Dodgers trailed by 5 going into the fifth inning however capitalized on a number of New York miscues within the prime of that inning — together with middle fielder Aaron Decide dropping a line drive, shortstop Anthony Volpe spiking a throw to 3rd and ace Gerrit Cole failing to cowl first on a routine floor ball — to tie the sport.
4 and a half innings later, the Dodgers have been celebrating a 7-6 win and their second World Sequence championship in 5 years.
“The fact is it’s an amazing workforce, it’s an amazing group with lots of nice people who I occur to know and respect, too,” Boone stated of the Dodgers this week. “So a number of individuals sounding off isn’t essentially how I might wish to draw it up. However they’re the champs. They’ve that proper.”
Within the days following the World Sequence, some Dodgers gamers made feedback that bought beneath the pores and skin of some Yankees followers. Aid pitcher Joe Kelly — who didn’t play within the postseason due to a proper shoulder damage and is now a free agent — said that the Dodgers had been trying to capitalize on “sloppy” play by the Yankees all through the sequence.
“They will’t make a play,” Kelly stated on the Nov. 4 episode of the “Baseball Isn’t Boring” podcast.
Kelly went on to say that the sequence “was only a mismatch from the get-go” and that the Yankees is perhaps thought-about the “eighth- or ninth-best playoff workforce” from final fall.
Dodgers star Mookie Betts had a variety of his teammates on an episode of his “On Base” podcast that was recorded Nov. 1 following the workforce’s victory parade and fan celebration at Dodger Stadium. In that festive setting, utility participant Chris Taylor used a profane phrase to explain the Yankees’ Recreation 5 meltdown.
Taylor added: “They form of s— down their leg. They have been urgent. It was like one factor after the following, so I feel our vitality within the dugout was form of feeding off that. It was like, ‘All we bought to do is put the ball in play proper now,’ you recognize?”
Boone was positive to level out that the Dodgers greatest stars — particularly naming Betts, Freddie Freeman, Shohei Ohtani and Clayton Kershaw — haven’t disrespected his workforce. As an alternative, Boone urged, it was guys who performed a a lot smaller position within the Dodgers’ success.
“Some guys are extra inclined to spout off and be somewhat extra colourful than others,” Boone stated. “And once more, that’s their proper. They gained. And once more, hopefully we’re in that place and do issues somewhat higher.”