Two days remain until the New York Yankees play their Opening Day game versus the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park on Wednesday, so the question remains. How will manager Aaron Boone build his lineup against San Francisco ace Logan Webb?
Chris Kirschner of The Athletic recently spoke to Boone for a piece to debunk the myth that won’t die: He doesn’t make the lineup, the front office’s analytics team does. Nope. It’s all Boone, as confirmed by Kirschner and in the late, great Scott Miller’s book Skipper: Why Baseball Managers Matter and Always Will.