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Yankees manager Aaron Boone still has plenty of praise for Toronto Blue Jays

Adam Laskaris
Adam Laskaris
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Oct 16 2025, 6:20 pm
Yankees manager Aaron Boone still has plenty of praise for Toronto Blue Jays
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Since taking over as manager of the New York Yankees in 2018, Aaron Boone has mostly gotten the best of the Toronto Blue Jays.

In the regular season, the Yankees have finished above Toronto in six of those eight years, while also holding a 67-58 record over that time span.

But in 2025, the Blue Jays flipped that script, winning the American League East and knocking the Yankees out of the postseason with a 3-1 AL Wild Card Series win.

Over the course of the year, Toronto ended up with an 11-6 record over the Yankees, a thing that many Jays fans don’t seem ready to forget anytime soon.

At his end-of-season media availability, Boone was full of praise for the team that knocked them out of the postseason.

“[The Blue Jays] put it on us off from an offensive standpoint, and we didn’t have a good enough answer,” Boone told reporters on Thursday. “I feel like we had different ways of beating you on a given night. We were healthy for the most part going in with at least who we started the year with, and then just ran into a Toronto club that beat us.”

Toronto scored 34 runs in four games against New York, compared to just 19 for the Yankees.

“It just comes down to, they out-executed us and outplayed us,” Boone added. “They ended up scoring a ton of runs against us in the four games that we played them, and just couldn’t keep them off the board and end up losing a series.”

The top official in the Yankees’ front office kept things much simpler when talking about Toronto.

“They rolled us in the regular season, and they rolled us in the postseason,” Yankees general manager Brian Cashman added.

The rivalry will need quite a bit of time before it’s renewed, though, as the next regular-season game is scheduled for May 18 in the Bronx.

For now, the Blue Jays focus their energy on the Seattle Mariners, with Game 4 of the American League Championship Series going Thursday night on the road.

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