{"id":116322,"date":"2025-08-03T19:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/116322\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T19:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:14:09","slug":"yankees-aaron-boone-pushes-back-on-accountability-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/116322\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees’ Aaron Boone pushes back on ‘accountability’ criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI \u2014 Wearing a T-shirt that featured the face of the former Yankees captain who criticized the current club for making too many mistakes<\/a>, Aaron Boone played defense.<\/p>\n

Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez ripped the Yankees on Saturday in their roles as FOX Sports commentators \u2014 Jeter saying \u201cthey make way too many mistakes\u201d and Rodriguez asking, \u201cWhere\u2019s the accountability\u201d for those mistakes \u2014 after a game in which Jazz Chisholm Jr. was doubled off at first base on a popup to second<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, we\u2019re the Yankees, and when we lose games, if it\u2019s in and around a mistake, that criticism is fair,\u201d Boone said Sunday morning at loanDepot Park. \u201cIt\u2019s fair game, I guess. At the end of the day, we have the pieces I think to be a really good team and that\u2019s on me and all of us to get the most out of that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aaron Boone reacts during the Yankees\u2019 game against the Marlins on Aug. 2. AP<\/p>\n

Jazz Chisholm Jr. reacts after his baserunning blunder during the Yankees\u2019 Aug. 2 loss. Screengrab via X\/@TalkinYanks<\/p>\n

\u201cI would disagree a little bit with the accountability factor. But the reality is we\u2019re focused every day on being the best we can be. That\u2019s how we have to do it. But I understand when it doesn\u2019t happen or we don\u2019t have the record, I think we should have, or certainly people think we should have, that comes with the territory. It\u2019s on us to change that thought.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boone indicated that there is more going on behind the scenes in terms of accountability that doesn\u2019t get shown in front of cameras or voiced in postgame press conferences.<\/p>\n

The eighth-year manager has rarely pulled a player in-game for making a baserunning mistake, with his standard for benching being if he sees a player \u201cdogging it.\u201d <\/p>\n

Rodriguez claimed that if any of the Yankees he played with made a mistake, \u201cwe would be sitting our butt right on the bench.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boone, whose club entered Sunday 60-51 and in third place in the AL East, said the perception that there is no accountability \u201cmaybe sometimes\u201d makes him angry.<\/p>\n

Alex Rodriguez (second from left) and Derek Jeter (r.) are pictured during the FOX broadcast Aug. 2. FOX Sports<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reality is, I think we should be better than what our record is and that starts with me,\u201d Boone said. \u201cWe got to own that. The only way we can change that thought is by playing a more consistent brand of baseball and winning baseball games.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for Saturday\u2019s gaffe, Chisholm said Saturday night he would not do anything differently because he believed that Marlins second baseman Xavier Edwards was going to drop the ball purposely \u2014 which Edwards confirmed he was thinking about doing \u2014 to nail Chisholm at second.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Because of that, Boone stood behind Chisholm\u2019s decisionmaking on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s borne out of some thoughtfulness,\u201d Boone said. \u201cHe\u2019s trying to make a play. He understands what Edwards was trying to do, we all do. Sometimes you don\u2019t have control of that. Sometimes if they execute really well on that kind of play, they\u2019re going to be able to swap out the runner. I also understand that this is a turf field and landing on the dirt, it\u2019s going to bounce a different way if they do roll the dice with a play like that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo Jazz, in a lot of ways, was onto that and trying to make a play. He obviously got a little too far, or his last step put him in a position to where he was vulnerable. At the end of the day, you don\u2019t want to make that out, obviously. But borne out of someone trying to make a play.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 Wearing a T-shirt that featured the face of the former Yankees captain who criticized the current…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2226,12859,47071,9138,1266,2228,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-116322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aaron-boone","9":"tag-alex-rodriguez","10":"tag-derek-jeter","11":"tag-jazz-chisholm","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114966433978379665","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}