NEW YORK - Next year, the Yankees are running it back with Aaron Boone.
Per an MLB executive source, Boone is returning in 2027, the final guaranteed year on his contract - an outcome that was widely anticipated.
Yet, it's been 12 days since the Yankees were swept by the Tampa Bay Rays in the AL Division Series, and there hasn't been any public statements by GM Brian Cashman or owner Hal Steinbrenner since.
In the season's immediate aftermath, Boone expected to return in 2027, “but those conversations and things are for another day,'' he said after the Rays' 4-3 victory in ALDS Game 3.
"When you pour so much into it and it's your livelihood, it's hard to describe how awful of a feeling it is to go home again,'' said Boone, with the Yankees' season just concluded.
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It's been 17 years since the Yankees paraded up the Canyon of Heroes as world champs. Next year will be Boone's 10th as Yankees manager.
He'll enter 2027 with an enviable pitching staff, led by likely AL Cy Young Award winner Cam Schlittler, with veterans Gerrit Cole, Max Fried and Carlos Rodon.
But there's work to be done in the bullpen, where closer David Bednar is a free agent, and there are potential openings at third base and second base, with Ryan McMahon as a trade candidate and Jazz Chisholm Jr. is a pending free agent.
Boone's ninth year at the helm included two injury list stints by captain Aaron Judge (rib fracture, calf strain), who played in just 66 games and did not play in the postseason.
This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: Aaron Boone returning as Yankees manager for 2027, source says