Why did it have to be Andrew Miller?

I get it. I toooootally get it.

Here’s me, the Yankee fan, getting it.

I understand the impetus for a rebuild. The Yankees haven’t had a top ten farm system since the days when Ruben Rivera was still a supposed gazelle. Theoretically, following Sunday morning’s wheel-and-deal, they’re top five, now. The transformation has been rapid and the ascendance has earned a never-ending round of applause from me.

But—and once again, I do know the answer to this—but why did such a rebuild have to come at the expense of Andrew Miller and his whiparound devastation?

Once Chapman went, it was pretty clear Miller had to go, too. Heck, once Andrew Cashner went for the return he netted, it was pretty clear the…