NEW YORK — As Aaron Boone and Brian Cashman eulogized the Yankees’ 2022 season on Friday afternoon with separate press conferences at Yankee Stadium, there was some definite melancholy in the air.
Boone called this period a “rough time” and said that the Yankees “need to slay that dragon” living in Houston. Cashman called the end of the season “frustrating.” He specifically pointed to Andrew Benintendi’s hamate bone injury (he had surgery to remove the bone in college, but it curiously grew back this year and snapped in September) as one of the things that derailed a previously unstoppable train.
But with respect to the 99-win season the Yankees put together, nobody cares about that anymore. Most people have accepted that the Astros were a significantly better team, and now the focus lies solely in the future. Particularly, whether free agent Aaron Judge will be part of that.
