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Aaron Boone’s new deal for the Yankees is, in effect, a three-year deal through 2027, as they bumped his pay this year to $4.5 million and added two years at $5M and $5.5M, making it $15M over three years, The Post has learned.
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So about $10.5M over two years was added, moving him closer to the upper echelon of manager pay.
Boone has one of baseball’s hardest jobs, so don’t begrudge him a bit.
His friend Carlos Mendoza, with two years left on his $4.5 million, three-year deal, deserves a raise.