Aaron Boone, manager of the New York Yankees, was ejected for the fifth time this season during Sunday’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays, bringing his career total to 38 ejections. The ejection occurred after Boone disputed a call made by plate umpire Edwin Jiménez.
How it happened
The confrontation happened in the sixth inning when Alex Verdugo was called out on a full-count pitch from Colin Poche that appeared to be low. Boone’s objections from the dugout led to his removal before the seventh inning began, with the Yankees trailing 3-0.
Boone is no stranger to ejections, having led the league with nine in 2022 and matching the highest number with seven last year.
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This is one aspect of Boone’s managing that I feel is laudatory. When he complains about a bad call, he’s right, more often than not.
Unfortunately, MLB allows the umps to act like their gods who are NEVER wrong, so it’s debatable whether it works to the Yankees advantage to note when the umps are wrong, since they’re always right in their mind. I can well understand how frustrating it must be for a manager & the hitter.
As far as I’m concerned, MLB can’t change to computer-aided auto calls fast enough. It seems like the worst umps are wrong far more than 50% of the time, and even the best umps are wrong 30% of the time or more.
Besides, most fans probably could do without hearing how cacher X is great at framing. It’s a skill that baseball could do without, and nobody but the pitcher really enjoys it: “Yea, we STOLE a strike.” How exciting. ;-(