He surely heard the opinion of Dodgers infielder Miguel Rojas, who said the Yankees’ “weakness was the way they make outs on the bases, the way they didn’t take care of the baseball, [their] lazy defense.”

Kelly called the matchup with the Yankees a “mismatch from the get-go” on the Baseball Isn’t Boring show, insisting that the Yankees would be eighth or ninth in a re-ranking of the teams that made the postseason this year.

Yankees manager Aaron Boone says the disappointment of the World Series loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers won’t go away and he doesn’t mind entering 2025 in possibly the last year of his contract.