Let’s Get Weird: Yankees, Mets, Marlins Talking Three-Team Realmuto Trade (UPDATE)
It’s late night at the Winter Meetings, which means it’s time for the drinks to start flowing and the REAL crazy rumors to come out.
Like this:
#Mets have discussed trade in which they would land J.T. Realmuto in three-team deal with #Yankees and #Marlins, sources tell The Athletic. Not known if Syndergaard involved. NYM would not part with Syndergaard (three years control) if getting only Realmuto (two years) in return.
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) December 11, 2018
Yankees do like Gary Sanchez very much, as they’ve said, so not sure how Realmuto deal would work for them. It’s been suggested Yankees involvement could be 3-way situation with them being the conduit.
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) December 11, 2018
Given Rosenthal’s report, it sounds like Heyman was hearing the same thing, he just didn’t have all the details yet. So we’d be looking at the Mets landing J.T. Realmuto, and the Marlins almost certainly getting prospects. The Yankees? Well, despite the protestation, it’d have to be Noah Syndergaard, right? The Yankees have the need and desire to land an arm like that, and how else would you incorporate the Yankees logically into a deal for Realmuto?
We’ll see if this goes anywhere, and how it all shakes out for the involved entities.
ORRRR we’ll see if it was just some late-night Las Vegas madness.
And just as I type that, Joel Sherman and Andy Martino throw down some mixed additional info:
As of now 1 involved person describes 3-way talks between #Yankees #Mets #Marlins as lot of smoke not a lot of fire. NYY have thought Mia hesitant to deal with them, though in scenario laid out by @Ken_Rosenthal the NYM would get Realmuto from Miami.
— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) December 11, 2018
Source: Noah Syndergaard to Yankees is a real possibility but there are “10 other scenarios” Mets are considering
— Andy Martino (@martinonyc) December 11, 2018
UPDATE: Stay alert:
Source: Yankees “pushing hard” tonight to make deal with Mets
— Andy Martino (@martinonyc) December 11, 2018
