New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone has turned getting ejected by umpires into such a regular occurrence that his players — and even his family — debate their favorite signature moments, like he's a sitcom character. «You see him out there yelling,» said Yankees captain Aaron Judge with a laugh. «He has passion.
I love the gum throw. You've got him doing stuff with his hat.» It's not just that Boone is getting tossed at an historic rate, earning him a recent one-game suspension from MLB after two ejections in a four-game span.
It's not just that Boone has been tossed 30 times in his five-plus seasons as a manager. It's that Boone has been ejected enough times his players have begun breaking down his style — like Judge's favorite, <a href=«https://twitter.com/bronxtalks/status/1658302530206433280?ref_src=» https:>the gum tosses, which recently got meme'd into a phony <a href=«https://twitter.com/PlayoffTanaka_/status/1658291286410141696?ref_src=» https:>Statcast treatment.
Aaron Boone's gum throw via statcast pic.twitter.com/rW4s7LBuel «There's an art form to it,» said Yankees outfielder Harrison Bader on the gum toss. «He does it incredibly well.