If the Yankees don’t defy the odds and acquire Jacob deGrom or Noah Syndergaard from the Mets, it won’t be from a lack of inter-borough dialogue. But their better chance might come at landing a former Mets pitching prospect: Michael Fulmer.
Brian Cashman acknowledged Thursday that he has spoken multiple times with the Mets, who are out of contention and therefore have to at least consider dealing the young, frontline members of their starting rotation. The Yankees’ general manager intends to maintain those talks through the Mets’ front-office transition, in which Omar Minaya, J.P. Ricciardi and John Ricco have assumed interim GM duties after Sandy Alderson took a medical leave of absence and indicated he likely wouldn’t return to the job.