Yankees news: Manager Aaron Boone expected to return in 2025

SNY | Andy Martino: The body of the 2024 season is still warm, but we've already gotten word that the Yankees are expected to bring back manager Aaron Boone in 2025. The team is holding on to the 2025 option, which they are expected to exercise, according to rumors that he wanted to keep his job for an eighth season if he won at least one postseason series.

The front office stands behind the manager's decision to use Nestor Cortes out of the bullpen in the 10th inning of Game 1, a move that backfired with a Freddie Freeman grand slam and left the team in shock for the following two games seemed. (The team's questionable mental lapses all year also returned with a vengeance in Game 5.) There is speculation that the Yankees might try to extend Boone beyond next season, since they don't typically go for lame ducks, but for the time being, everything that goes with it has been discussed in 2025.

Yahoo! Sports | Jack Baer: The wait for the Yankees' 28th title continues as the Dodgers erased a five-run deficit in Game 5 to win the World Series. Two errors by Aaron Judge and Anthony Volpe (plus a faux pas at first base) allowed five Dodgers to score in the fifth inning, although Gerrit Cole fielded a no-hitter. When the season is on the line, you simply can't make mistakes like that.

Defensive mistakes and management decisions cost the Yankees at least two wins in the Fall Classic, and the front office has the next few months to analyze the team's deficiencies and hopefully find a solution to address them. On paper it looked like an even series, but the games are played on the field, where the Dodgers were the clearly superior team in all aspects of the game. Congratulations to the Dodgers; The Yankees didn't deserve the win and now they have to think about why.

ESPN: Before the start of Game 5, the Yankees announced that they had ejected the two fans who interfered with Mookie Betts, pinning his arm to the wall and pulling the ball out of his glove after he caught a foul-flying ball from Gleyber Torres in the first inning to right. Fans were refunded the cost of tickets, but instead of allowing them to transfer their Game 5 seats to relatives, the Yankees gave the seats to a pediatric cancer patient and his family while warning banned fans that they would be arrested if they did they would have attempted to participate in Game 5.

The Athlete | Mark Puleo ($): There have been some high-profile moments in the postseason that disrupted fans, so of course we had to hear from the man at the center of the most infamous moment with the Yankees. Jeffrey Maier famously reached over the wall to his right to pull a Derek Jeter fly ball into the stands against the Orioles in Game 1 of the 1996 ALCS.

Now, 28 years later, Maier, 40, reflected on his infamous catch and distinguished between his actions and the inexcusable actions of the two fans who ripped the ball out of Betts' glove and were later ejected and suspended. Maier understood that in the heat of battle instincts take over, but also felt that the actions of the outcast fans clearly crossed the line between reflexive and deliberate.

New York Post | Jorge Fitz-Gibbon: It's not often you get to make your childhood dream come true, especially when that dream is playing for the New York Yankees. So it's fair to say that lifelong Yankee fan Anthony Volpe hitting a grand slam in Game 4 of the World Series to keep his team's hopes alive is the stuff fairy tales are made of. Volpe reflected on the origins of his love for the Yankees, starting with his great-grandfather, a World War II veteran who met his son (Volpe's grandfather) for the first time after returning from the war, the foundation of that father-son relationship, which was based on following the Yankees together.