Michael King is the closer Yankees need

Mandatory Credit: Wendell Cruz-USA TODAY SportsThe 2023 MLB season is a month old and in a highly unprecedented turn of events, the Yankees do not have a closer.

No, seriously. It’s true. It was a good run of Mariano Rivera, David Robertson, Andrew Miller, Aroldis Chapman and then Clay Holmes last season. Holmes even earned an All-Star selection thanks to his sudden ninth-inning heroics.

Since then, however, Holmes has struggled save for a fairly flawless postseason. He has a 5.29 ERA since July 12 of last year and looks like anything except a reliable closer.

His teammate Michael King, on the other hand has. In fact, King might have been the best candidate to close games in New York all this…