Why Yankees’ Aaron Boone would never make Mets’ Mickey Callaway’s latest mistake

Here’s why Yankees manager Aaron Boone would never flub the way Mets manager Mickey Callaway did at Yankee Stadium on Saturday.

NEW YORK — It’s a fairly common sight.

It’s also the reason you’ll likely never see Aaron Boone pull a Mickey Callaway.

Saturday morning, before the Yankees faced the Mets at Yankee Stadium, Callaway told reporters had hadn’t heard what his star hitter had said the night before.

That wouldn’t have been such a big deal.

Except what Yoenis Cespedes said was, in fact, a very big deal.

After the Yankees’ 7-5 loss to the Mets, Cespedes told reporters he needs surgery on both of his heels; that, if he has them, the procedures would sideline him for between eight and 10 months; and that he’s not sure he’ll be able to finish the rest of the season.

About 12 hours later, Callaway was caught off guard by Cespedes’ remarks.

“That’s concerning,” Callaway said. “I feel bad for the guy. He has worked so hard. If you see the stuff he has to go through to get back — he worked so hard this winter. We talked about everything that he tried to do to put himself in a good spot to come out and be healthy for the team. I feel for the guy because he’s done everything he possibly can to stay healthy.”

To repeat: 

The manager of a professional baseball team in New York didn’t know about the bomb his highest-paid player had dropped the night before.

That would never happen in the Bronx.

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Often, a Yankees spokesman huddles with the manager — Boone or, as it had been for a decade, Joe Girardi — before his pregame or postgame press conference.

The conversations are more like briefings. The member of the media relations staff goes over talking points with Boone and catches him up on anything that may have come up moments before the press conference.

At home, sometimes these talks happen in plain sight, just outside the Yankee Stadium press conference room or on the field. On the road, they happen where Boone typically speaks — either in the dugout or the visiting manager’s office. 

And when news breaks and it involves multiple parties, the media relations staff coordinates to attempt to get everyone on the same message. When is the last time you heard conflicting messages come from the Yankees?

Of course, when it comes to Boone, it helps that media has been a major part of his life for almost a decade. Prior to taking over as Yankees’ manager in December, Boone served as an ESPN analyst for seven seasons, where he didn’t just get a look at how the sausage is made but made it himself.

But you’d be hard-pressed to find flubs like Callaway’s — in a season dotted with them for the rookie manager — that happened during the Girardi era, either.

Because these days, whenever the Mets screw up, only one explanation really captures why: They’re the Mets.

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