Andrew Miller had as good a year as any closer in baseball last season and lost his job.
Which the Yankees lefthander, who will be replaced in the role this season by the newly acquired Aroldis Chapman, is fine with.
“I came to New York to be a winner,” Miller said Tuesday on the “Michael Kay Show” on ESPN Radio. “Hopefully that’s how I’m remembered as a Yankee at the end of the day.”
The 30-year-old Miller, after signing a four-year, $36-million deal with the Yankees last offseason, closed for the first time in his career in 2015 and excelled.