Aaron Boone's pregame Jazz Chisholm admission shows his Yankees career may already be over

Jazz Chisholm Jr. may not have hit the 50-50 plateau he set out as his 2026 goal, but that doesn't mean he won't cash in - relatively speaking - in free agency. As if we didn't already have enough evidence that Chisholm Jr. would be landing at a new home this winter, the drastic difference in the way Aaron Boone treated him between rounds of the Yankees' playoff run shows that the manager's patience may have officially run out.

Chisholm Jr. doesn't like to be platooned and he doesn't like to ride the pine in playoff games. Full stop. If the team wins, he seems to understand the strategy a little better. If the team loses, he might just do his postgame interview with his back turned to the camera.

That mentality is why Boone took a preventative step in the AL Wild Card Series ahead of Game 1 against Payton Tolle of the Boston Red Sox, reaching out to Chisholm Jr. and telling him that, although he wouldn't be starting, there was certainly a chance he'd be called upon for the biggest at-bat of the game. The Yankees won. We never really heard about it again.

After a cavalcade of Game 2 errors, though, Boone chose to put both Chisholm Jr. and Ryan McMahon on the bench for what may be the final game of the Yankees' season - and, concurrently, Chisholm Jr.'s Yankees career. Did Boone send a similar supportive message? Not this time.

Nope. Didn't discuss it. I was told there was no accountability in Boone's locker room and mistakes were never punished? Will have to look into this one further.

Jazz Chisholm Jr.'s Yankees career may end with a whimper in ALDS Game 3

Since Boone used the same eight-righty lineup for the first two games of this series, his Game 3 shift was a tacit admission of guilt. If he believes he got things wrong in Game 2, and chose to depose Chisholm Jr. and not warn him, then it would stand to reason he believes starting Chisholm Jr., even against right-handed pitching, currently ranks as a mistake.

Let's see if Chisholm Jr. pinch runs or punches his way into the batting order before the end of this one. If not, we may have seen him rock the pinstripes for the final time - and the next time he gets in front of a microphone (Angels spring training?), it's going to be open season).

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