Brian Cashman, Yankees want to extend Aaron Boone ‘past 2025 season’

BRADENTON, Fla. – Hal Steinbrenner typically prefers to let contracts play out instead of doing extensions ahead of time.

The Yankees appear willing to make an exception for Aaron Boone.

Brian Cashman said Friday that he and Steinbrenner have been working through talks with Boone regarding an extension, entering the final year of his contract, and made it sound like a deal could happen this spring.

“We picked up his option last year, but that’s not our intent – our intent is to find an extension, so certainly I’ve been working through that and Hal Steinbrenner has been working through that with Aaron Boone,” Cashman said at the Grapefruit League media day at LECOM Park. “We’re hopeful at some point, sooner than later, that we’ll be able to officially cement something. But obviously I haven’t gotten there yet. Just give us time. Our main focus this whole winter has been on roster construction and some of this other stuff we’re just getting to. 

“But our intent is to make sure Aaron Boone is going to continue with the Yankees past the 2025 season.”

The Yankees let Boone’s first contract with the club play out before signing him to a new deal after the 2021 season.

That contract came with a club option for 2025, which the Yankees picked up in November after falling short in the World Series, but now they are talking about making sure their partnership lasts longer than that.

Boone did not want to comment on the topic Friday, but earlier in the week acknowledged that there had been some talks about an extension.

“The reality is I’m so fired up to be here today and to get to work for this organization and for Hal that hopefully something does work out,” Boone said on Tuesday. “There’s no other place I’d rather be and no other team I’d rather be doing it with. So we’ll see.”