Yankees signed free-agent left-handed reliever Andrew Miller to a four-year , $36 million contract. General manager Brian Cashman said the team's original offer for Miller was four years, $32 million, but the Yankees upped it to $9 million per year when they learned the lefty had a four-year, $40 million deal on the table from another club. That means Miller left $4 million on the table to play for the Yankees.
The 6-foot-7 Miller, who will turn 30 in May, spent the end of the 2014 season with the Orioles, having been traded by the Red Sox, for whom he had pitched the previous 3 ½ seasons -- at the trade deadline. Miller began his career with the Tigers, who selected him with the sixth overall pick in the 2006 amateur draft, and pitched three seasons with the Florida Marlins before joining Boston in 2011. Miller, essentially a two-pitch pitcher (fastball and slider) has a 30-38 career record and 4.91 career ERA.