An extra starter (or three) could be relief.

Boras said as much Wednesday while meeting with reporters in the courtyard of the Omni Scottsdale Resort.

“Everybody wants the HELP pitcher – the high-level performance pitcher,” Boras said, using a term his office coined. “Every club has to have that guy, and they’re going to say who is he, what unique characteristic does he have? You’re finding that teams that are in the final levels of the playoffs, they all have a HELP pitcher. He’s there. He can throw in the sixth, seventh. He can close. He can do it.”

None more famously and recently than Andrew Miller, Cleveland’s lefty.

This past postseason, Callaway and manager Terry Francona aggressively used Miller for huge swaths of innings. The lefty would sometimes close but would always appear when the game needed saving, whether there was a statistical save to be claimed or not. Miller’s high-leverage usage was similar to what Kansas City did with Wade Davis in Octobers past, and there were even echoes of what the Cardinals did with their bullpen during 2011’s World Series run. Like Davis before him, Miller was a former starter who found his calling in relief – and then got called again and again and again to provide it.