The best news for Yankee fans isn’t about the seven reinforcements they’ve got coming over the hill. No, the better news is that it’s official that the people in charge are actually listening to

Earlier Thursday, the Padres acquired Athletics star closer Mason Miller and the Mariners completed a deal with the Diamondbacks for All-Star third baseman Eugenio Suarez, who is third in the National League with 36 homers and first with 87 RBI.

Put it this way, even if the Mets just had as good a do-over day as the Yankees did: The Yankees still had a much better Trade Deadline than a year ago, when if they’d brought in better reinforcements — even in a lesser market than this one — they might have won their first World Series since 2009. Which sometimes feels like 1909 to Yankee fans.