NEW YORK (AP) Aaron Boone will be back with the New York Yankees next year, their first manager since Miller Huggins in 1922 to return for a fifth season after failing to win a title during his first four.

"A manager is only as good as the players he's got," general manager Brian Cashman said Tuesday after announcing a three-year contract for Boone that contains a club option for 2025.

"If he was entering the free-agent market, I believe he'd be the number one managerial candidate in baseball," Cashman said. "There's a number of different vacancies, and we would be going to market looking for someone like him."