Not too long after those GM meetings at the Arizona Biltmore, Miller signed with the New York Yankees and, sure enough, spent that next year as the Yankees’ closer, with 36 saves. He was part of a three-headed approach to the ninth inning coming into the season, sharing a bullpen with Aroldis Chapman. The Yankees wanted to stack closers at the end of the game to shorten games – in the same way they did in the late 1990s, as the Cardinals did in 2011, as the Kansas City Royals did in 2014 and 2015. Cleveland paid a high-prospect cost to land Miller at this past summer’s trade deadline, but as a result freed him from convention. Now instead of being a closer handcuffed to the ninth or assigned an inning as part of a series of closers, he could be used when the game was in jeopardy – and for as long as it was in doubt.