Clueless Boone & The Quest To Be Incompetent

Remember March 31, 2025? Jeana Bellezza-Ochoa said it plain as day: THE YANKEES HAVE A BIG PROBLEM IN THE INFIELD. And what did the Yankees do? Not a damn thing. Actually, scratch that—they made it worse.

They let Gleyber Torres walk (for nothing), propped up Anthony Volpe at shortstop like he’s Ozzie Smith when in reality he’s leading the entire American League in errors, and then, for their latest act of baseball malpractice, they shoved Jazz Chisholm Jr.—a SECOND BASEMAN—over to third base like this is some kind of summer camp positional experiment.

Now it’s July 2, and the Yankees’ infield is still a mess. Shocker. Aaron Boone is out here defending Volpe’s avalanche of errors as “aggressive mistakes” the other night, but then turns around and throws Jazz under the bus for an error he made at a position he doesn’t even play. Make it make sense.

Boone’s quote-unquote defense of Volpe and criticism of Chisholm is the kind of clueless double standard that has defined his entire tenure in the Bronx. And let’s not forget: Jazz Chisholm said it himself, loud and clear—“Everybody knows I’m a second baseman.” Yeah, Jazz. Everybody except the New York Yankees.

And guess what? Jazz is still at third in today’s lineup. Because nothing says “we’re trying to win” like continuing to play a guy out of position while DJ LeMahieu—36, declining, and being babied like he’s royalty—is locked in at second because he’s “more comfortable” there and Boone doesn’t want him to get hurt again. Do I know that for a fact? No, but what I do know is that there is a lot of money locked up in DJ, and they are going to get every ounce of him on the field they can.  That my friends IS a fact and Boone is being told to do that.

This is what we’re doing now? Basing defensive alignments on comfort levels instead of logic, talent, or, I don’t know, competence? DJ LeMahieu is no longer the Gold Glove vacuum cleaner he used to be. He should be at third. But here come the Yankees, protecting contracts and aging vets at the expense of…winning baseball games.

Let’s also not pretend Aaron Boone is the only problem. The front office is just as guilty—maybe more so. According to Clint Frazier (who has no reason to lie), Boone doesn’t even write the damn lineup. He said it best:

“I do feel like they hired a few too many rocket scientists to try to like make the lineup, instead of just like letting a former player or a guy that has more experience write the lineup.”

Rocket scientists. That’s what this has come to. Algorithms over instincts. Spread-sheets over soul. Welcome to the era of spreadsheet baseball, where Aaron Boone is the puppet, and the Yankees front office is too arrogant to admit they’ve created a monster with no brain and no guts.

This team is over-managed, over-paid, over-hyped—and underachieving. Every single year. And yet, Aaron Boone is still employed. Why the fuck is Aaron Boone still the Yankees manager? No one seems to have an answer. Not Brian Cashman. Not Hal Steinbrenner. Not the baseball gods. Nobody.

This infield disaster is just a symptom. The real disease? A clueless manager, a gutless front office, and a franchise more concerned with optics than winning. AND THEY MADE THE INFIELD PROBLEM THEMSELVES. Torres is a leader over there in Detroit. Good for him!

Until there’s a change, the Yankees aren’t winning a damn thing.

Not with Volpe booting routine grounders at short.
Not with Jazz flailing at third.
Not with DJ being coddled at second.
And definitely not with Boone managing like it’s a beer league softball game.

Enough is enough. Wake the hell up, Yankees.  

By the way, Torres is batting .284 with 9 homers, 43 RBIs and an OPS of .823. Cashman’s a moron.