LAS VEGAS — That the Mets and Yankees would even contemplate a trade large enough to ship Noah Syndergaard from Queens to The Bronx provides symbolism for where the teams are at this offseason:
The Yankees will pursue high-end starting pitching wherever it may be.
The Mets, under Brodie Van Wagenen, are shopping in areas and ways not familiar to Wilpon ownership.
As of late Monday night, there were executives on both sides of New York baseball downplaying the potential of a three-way trade that also would send Miami’s J.T. Realmuto to the Mets.