Joe Girardi was on YES’ “Yankees Hot Stove” show last night with Bob Lorenz and Jack Curry, and he talked a lot about how he plans to utilize his group of new players this season. Obviously everybody knows what the big story is in there and Joe didn’t waste any time addressing it. He came out and said that Aroldis Chapman will be the closer going into Spring Training this year, with Andrew Miller and Dellin Betances serving as co-primary setup men.
Not exactly earth-shattering news in and of itself, but noteworthy in that the announcement was a major deviation from Girardi’s strategy last year when there was the Betances/Miller closer competition.