Aaron Boone, most of his coaches and six members of the Yankees’ Opening Day roster were two time zones, one country and some 1,200 miles away from the rest of the team.

Considering that the Yankees’ two-game series in Mexico City fell on the final two days of spring training, the timing was far from ideal, which a handful of team personnel acknowledged before the trip. Most of the players involved in the final roster decisions were back in Tampa, meaning Boone could not be there to deliver the news, good or bad, about whether or not a player had made the team.

“Honestly, the last day and a half leading into this has been a little stressful,” Boone said Sunday morning in Mexico City.

In addition, a few late drops from the roster the Yankees had planned to bring to Mexico — notably Juan Soto, Alex Verdugo and DJ LeMahieu — tempered some of the buzz heading into the two-game series with Diablos Rojos del México.