Aaron Boone says Goodbye as he confirms that this will be his last season at New York Yankees as he is now…
A shower at the MLB Winter Meetings usually isn’t followed by a frenzy of a non-stop buzzing cell phone. For New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone, that was his world in December 2022 when he stepped out of the shower expecting to get dressed for his usual run-of-the-mill media car wash.
Boone in reality was stepping into one of the craziest offseason scenes in recent memory. All because of one tweet. Not any tweet.
Maybe the most-tweeted misspelling ever.
Arson Judge will live on forever. Aaron Judge, however, is in his second season of a nine-year, $360 million contract to remain a Yankee. The alternative was the Giants or San Diego Padres, and for a few minutes, columnist and MLB Insider Jon Heyman had the whole baseball world believing Judge was headed for the Bay instead of the Bronx.
Heyman on Dec. 6, 2022 tweeted “Arson Judge appears headed to Giants,” only to then tweet four minutes later that the Giants hadn’t heard from Judge and apologized for “jumping the gun.”
“It wasn’t a high time,” Boone recalled Friday at Oracle Park during his pregame press conference before the Yankees play the Giants. “But it turned the next morning.”
That’s when the 2022 MVP made it official he was sticking with navy pinstripes instead of orange and black.