Yankees' Aaron Boone Met with 'Frustrated' Hal Steinbrenner, Brian Cashman

New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone recently met with managing partner Hal Steinbrenner and general manager Brian Cashman amid the team's disappointing season and told reporters the Bronx Bombers' brass was "frustrated" with the state of the franchise.

"We understand we're in a tough spot and it's not going well," he added. "We're in the business of trying to fix it and trying to [determine] what are the best moves moving forward for us to try and get us on track."

Those frustrations are more than justifiable. The Yankees have lost seven straight games—including two in a row to the hated Boston Red Sox—and now find themselves at 60-63, good for last place in the AL East.

The Yankees, who were considered preseason World Series contenders, are 16 games back of the first-place Baltimore Orioles in the division and eight games back of the Seattle Mariners for the final AL Wild Card berth.

Their postseason hopes, in other words, are all but extinguished, even if they aren't publicly waving the white flag just yet.

"We're definitely not giving up," Boone said. "When you're wearing it and you're scuffling, it can beat you down a little bit. That's what you've got to guard against, especially this time of year when you're in the dog days. That's part of it. That's part of being a big leaguer."

Boone also said he held a team meeting Friday night and believes the Yankees will turn things around.

"Not fun going through this, right?" he told reporters. "But I feel like we're OK. And I do feel like the turnaround is coming."

It didn't come on Saturday, as the Yankees were waxed by the Red Sox, 8-1. Perhaps nothing better illustrated the team's overall issues than ace Gerrit Cole giving up six runs on seven hits and two homers in the loss, the third time this season he's allowed six runs.

In general, Cole (10-4, 3.03 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 170 strikeouts) hasn't been among the team's issues this season. But when even he's getting knocked around it's downright bleak for these Yankees, arguably baseball's biggest disappointment this season.