Zach Britton said he could have been a closer again.
Instead, he chose to come back to the Yankees, where he’ll be a key element to a bullpen that has Aroldis Chapman in that role.
“I think the fact I had been a closer and I knew that I could do that at a high level, it wasn’t something [where] I needed to prove myself at all,” Britton said on a conference call Friday. “I wanted to go back to a team that was gonna to win year in and year out. If the opportunity wasn’t there for me to close, that was kind of OK.