CLEVELAND — Aaron Judge, Alex Verdugo, Jazz Chisholm and most of the other Yankees called out “Boooooooone” when their manager was introduced during an on-field American League championship trophy presentation late Saturday night.

Aaron Boone has finally managed the New York Yankees into the World Series. Since taking over as the skipper in 2018, he led New York to the doorstep twice but could never manage to get past the ALCS until Saturday night, when his team beat the Cleveland Guardians in extra innings to take the ALCS four games to one.

Perhaps you wonder how it can be, all these years later, that Aaron Boone, now the manager of the Yankees, can be so relentlessly positive even during stretches of seasons when his players can