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By Josh Wilson
Brian Cashman might be safe, but Aaron Boone isn't
Nightengale's column continued to talk about the New York Yankees. Fresh off an electric series sweep over the Houston Astros that will ultimately probably be too little too late, the team is fun again for the first time in a while.
New young prospects have been called up and are performing well with expectations lower than ever before with playoff hopes almost entirely in the rearview.
According to Nightengale, general manager Brian Cashman is still safe. He wants to keep Aaron Boone as the team's manager, but according to Nightengale, it will be team owner Hal Steinbrenner's call, not Cashman.
If the Yankees keep winning, it will be tough to justify firing Boone, who has led a team that looks ill equipped to win as far as how they've been built, not always how they've been led. While Boone is far from perfect and leaves fans scratching their heads at times, most of the responsibility for the poor results this year is attributed to Cashman.
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For Boone, the answer is likely to just keep winning and stay employed. But if the recent success reverts back to the implosion we were witnessing after the trade deadline, there's a real chance he could be fired.