
Aaron Boone ‘comfortable’ if Yankees stay ‘creative’ with closer role in playoffs
NY Post
When the Yankees start the playoffs next month, they might lack a true closer — and Aaron Boone, at least for now, sounds OK with that.
Since Clay Holmes’ 11th blown save prompted Boone to get “creative” with his end-of-game pitching plans last week, Luke Weaver picked up his first save. Holmes tossed an eighth inning.
With 17 games remaining, nobody has emerged with the job, and Boone is “comfortable” if the Yankees’ late-season pivot extends into the postseason.
“If we end up settling on a guy that ends up closing out games all the time to most of the time, that’s fine, too,” Boone said before the Yankees lost 5-0 to the Royals on Tuesday in The Bronx. “I’m gonna let that evolve.”
If that unfolds, it would mark a stark contrast from the Yankees teams that relied on Mariano Rivera to win World Series titles, that even stuck with the shakiness of Aroldis Chapman in recent Octobers.
Closers lose their jobs during the season.

There will be enough time to obsess over the things the Knicks don’t have, and why they don’t do well. Bank on that. There will be acres of space and hours of conversation devoted to the vast chasm between where the Knicks are and where they want to be — and, perhaps more tellingly, where they were expected to be. That’s coming, don’t worry.

If you think that winning two playoff series with John Tortorella behind the bench over the 12 years after he left Broadway in 2013 looks good on his résumé and is worth the angst that always accompanies one of his administrations, be my guest and by all means hire this coach who essentially fired himself again last week in Philadelphia.