Aaron Boone doesn’t buy that World Series exposed any real Yankees weaknesses

Aaron Boone acknowledged that “everyone’s going to have their opinions.”

He heard that of injured Dodgers reliever Joe Kelly, who said the Yankees were “kicking the ball around and playing Yankee defense.”

He surely heard the opinion of Dodgers infielder Miguel Rojas, who said the Yankees’ “weakness was the way they make outs on the bases, the way they didn’t take care of the baseball, [their] lazy defense.”

Media, social and traditional, frequently cited a lack of execution in the details, from baserunning to fielding, as particularly damaging to the Yankees’ World Series hopes. 

Boone’s own opinion: 

“I think it’s a story that blew up too much and understandably,” the Yankees manager said over Zoom on Monday, speaking publicly for the first time since the club picked up his option for 2025. “We had a really, really tough inning. But I think if you go back throughout the course of the season … we won a lot of games because of little things that we did well over the course of the year.”