page_title: Andrew Miller (baseball)
section_title: New York Yankees
hierarchical_section_title: Andrew Miller (baseball) / Professional career / New York Yankees
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context_page_description: Andrew Mark Miller is an American professional baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball. He previously played in MLB for the Detroit Tigers, Florida Marlins, Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, and Cleveland Indians. Primarily a starting pitcher who struggled early in his MLB career, Miller found sustained success as a reliever utilizing multiple-faceted fastball and slider approach that has proven deceptive for batters to hit. A left-handed batter and thrower, Miller stands 6 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 205 pounds.
  Instrumental in the Indians' World Series run in 2016, Miller earned the American League Championship Series Most Valuable Player honors, while setting a number of postseason strikeout records for relievers and covering multiple relief roles and innings. He is also a two-time MLB All-Star selection, and a winner of the AL Reliever of the Year Award. In 2017, he earned his first major championship in the World Baseball Classic as a member of the United States national team. His collegiate baseball awards include the Baseball America College Player of the Year and Roger Clemens Awards.
context_section_description: On December 5, 2014, Miller reached an agreement on a contract with the New York Yankees lasting four years and worth $36 million.  Before the season started, Yankees manager Joe Girardi announced that Miller and Dellin Betances would split the closing job.  Both men had one career save entering the season.  Miller began the season with ​17 ²⁄₃ scoreless innings, recording his first save in a Yankee uniform on April 8, 2015. On April 27, he became the first Yankee player to record eight saves in a 20-game span.
  According to Brooks Baseball, opponents batted .092 against Miller's slider in 2015.  Miller finished the season with a 2.04 ERA, 36 saves, and 100 strikeouts in ​61 ²⁄₃ innings pitched. Of all MLB pitchers, he held right-handed batters to the lowest batting average, .130 (in 30 or more innings).  He won the 2015 American League Relief Pitcher of the Year Award, the Rollie Fingers American League Relief Pitcher of the Year as voted by the Internet Baseball Writers' Association of America, and was recognized at the 2016 Thurman Munson Awards as the Yankees' "premier closer" for 2015.  In the AL Cy Young Award voting, Miller placed tenth.
  Prior to the 2016 season, the Yankees informed Miller that he would serve as the eighth-inning setup man with the acquisition of Aroldis Chapman, considered one of baseball's top closers.  However, early in spring training, MLB suspended Chapman for 30 games to commence with the start of the upcoming regular season, and the Yankees temporarily reinstalled Miller as closer.  At the end of spring training, a line drive fractured the pisiform bone in his right hand. He decided to pitch with the fracture, stating that "according to Wikipedia, it's not really an important bone. It doesn't really do anything."
  Until Chapman's return, Miller saved nine games. While with the Yankees, the triumvirate of Betances, Chapman and Miller were known by fans as "No Runs–D.M.C.," owing to the relievers' dominance of opposing hitters.  Miller was selected to his first All-Star Game, played at Petco Park in San Diego.  He pitched two-thirds of an inning and was removed after loading the bases, but no runs were charged to him.  Before the midseason trade, Miller recorded 77 strikeouts in ​45 ¹⁄₃ innings while posting an ERA of 1.39 in 44 games for the Yankees.
caption: Miller pitching for the New York Yankees in 2015
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