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When the Yankees decided not to bring back Joe Girardi as manager last fall, they knew the stakes for his replacement. Girardi had just guided the Yankees to the seventh game of the American League Championship Series. His successor would be measured by that standard.
Now the Yankees and their new manager, Aaron Boone, are facing postseason elimination at the hands of their rivals, the Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox clinched the A.