The New York Yankees have a lot of advantages over the Tampa Bay Rays, but Aaron Boone doesn't believe they hold every edge.

"They can do some things that we can"t do," Boone said. "I'll just say that. They can do a lot of things that we can't do."

The Yankees have a payroll more than $200 million greater, a large market and a television network.

Boone did not fully clarify his stance, but he said a bit more in alluding to a Rays organization that operates more efficiently than perhaps any other baseball team.

The Rays make "really sound moves of when to be able to move on and finding those diamonds in the rough throughout Major League Baseball that they bring in, all while maintaining a top-line farm system that they can always kind of grab people from," Boone said. "I think you got to respect them as one of the more well-run teams certainly in baseball, but in sports. They do a great job."