JUPITER, Fla. • The great writer Steve Rushin once described a heart that beat “like the drum riff from 'Wipeout,'” which is an appropriate description of one's ticker, while facing a slider classified as “wipeout.”
Andrew Miller's got one. Or had one? We think he's still got one, though it wasn't thrown as effectively in 2018. It's still a pretty slippery slider. And the new Cardinals lefty reliever has made millions because of his wipeout slider – “It's my main pitch, really. It's not even a secondary pitch.”
But in 2015 with the Yankees, four years after he became a reliever, it happened.