You’re not stunned that Andrew Miller went from the Yankee to the Indians in a July 31 trade and became the American League Championship Series Most Valuable Player, right? We saw how good he was as a Yankee. We knew the Indians were headed for the playoffs and, in Terry Francona, employ a manager who knows what he’s doing with a bullpen.
No, the most stunning component of the lanky lefty Miller’s post-Yankees existence is just how quickly he managed to grow that bushy beard.
“It’s not a statement or anything,” Miller told The Post of his facial hair, at the outset of the ALCS. “I didn’t mind shaving for the Yankees. I really enjoyed my time there. But I had the beard when I was in Boston. I hadn’t used that razor for a while [before joining the Yankees].
“My wife’s not too excited about it. It doesn’t really mean anything or do anything.”
What it does is continue a rich baseball tradition of somewhat recent vintage: The Yankees, in honor of the late George Steinbrenner’s wishes, do not allow their players to wear any facial hear below their lip. So when players leave the Yankees to play for other teams, many of them react with the same glee that Homer did in this episode of “The Simpsons” when he learns he needn’t stay after class for a review session.
What five players put together the best post-Yankee beards? Thank you for asking. Here’s one man’s ranking:
1. Andrew Miller
As mentioned earlier, he gets the top spot because of the speed with which he grew his beast. He couldn’t stop shaving until Aug. 1, his first day with the Indians. Not even three months later, he could be mistaken for a ZZ Top member in training. And Miller told me that he actually trimmed the beard a few times.
2. Joba Chamberlain
Look at him on the Tigers a couple of years ago. Was he trying to smuggle Ronald Torreyes in the beard? Holy schnikes.
3. David Wells
After the Yankees traded the hefty lefty back to Toronto for Roger Clemens in 1999, Wells went to a goatee rather than a full beard. But man, that goatee carried the depth of a Tolstoy novel and the thickness of Luke from “Modern Family.”
4. Gary Sheffield
Sheffield’s look fit the Yankees as well as anyone in recent memory. His pencil-thin mustache, legal by Yankees standards, made him look all the more menacing, sort of like a 1930s gangster.
But in his last stop with the Mets in 2009, Sheff’s full beard gave him a professorial vibe. He was a nutty professor, for sure, yet he still intimidated.
5. Boone Logan
He’s the least famous ex-Yankee on this list, and you could argue that, if fame counted for more, Logan would lose out to the likes of Phil Hughes or Ian Kennedy or even Reggie Jackson.
Logan, the lefty reliever who just finished a three-year, $16.5-million deal with the Rockies, pulls off the underdog triumph because of his commitment. I bet that when he speaks, you can barely see his mouth move, like with Beaker from “The Muppet Show.”
— This week’s Pop Quiz question came from Rob Morse, the Yankees’ coordinator of communications and media relations: He pitched for the Yankees’ Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre affiliate in 2016, and he is mentioned in a 2012 episode of “How I Met Your Mother.” Name him.
— Your Pop Quiz answer is Vinnie Pestano.
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