Sunday July 31, 2016 was a day for the Cleveland Indians to shine, though it seems like this whole summer has been a time for Ohio’s largest city to celebrate with the Cavs winning their first championship in decades. The city also played host to a successful GOP convention.
Everyone in Cleveland is celebrating, except maybe for the Bookies. Sunday was celebratory in that the trade deadline is proving to be far more active than some might have expected for the Cleveland Indians as the team announced the blockbuster addition of reliever Andrew Miller from the New York Yankees for minor leaguers Clint Frazier, Justus Sheffield, Ben Heller, and J.P. Feyereisen
The deal came on the heels of another reported trade that would have sent Milwaukee catcher Jonathan Lucroy to Cleveland, but the Brewers backstop exercised the no-trade clause in his contract as the Indians were one of eight teams that he could block a move to.
Various reports have speculated how and why the deal fell apart. There were reports that Lucroy wanted the Indians to decline his team option for the coming season, enabling him to cash in on the free agent market a year sooner. Other reports claimed that he would not be the starting catcher on the club for 2017 and would have instead been used between catcher, first base, and designated hitter, something that Lucroy did not want
But the acquisition of Miller created a series of candid celebrations in the team's clubhouse on Sunday morning. Miller was an All-Star for the first time in his career this season and heads to Cleveland with a 6-1 record on the year. He has a minuscule ERA of 1.39 and a WHIP of 0.77. With 77 strikeouts in 45 1/3 innings, he is averaging 15.3 strikeouts per nine innings and 11.0 strikeouts per walk on the year. Per Elias, his 1.77 ERA in 104 games over the last two years is the lowest ERA in history for any pitcher who has appeared in at least 100 games for the Yankees.
He is in his eleventh season in the Majors, almost hard to believe given the length of time it took Miller to become the quality back-end specialist that he has evolved into over the last half dozen years. He was a first round pick (sixth overall) by the Detroit Tigers in 2006 out of the University of North Carolina and appeared in eight games that same season at the age of 21.
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