The Mets are trying to enhance their pitching division by reportedly plucking from the Yankees.
Desi Druschel, who had served as Yankees assistant pitching coach since 2022, has been employed for a similar position in Queens, SNY reported Monday.
The Mets and Yankees didn’t verify the event, which reportedly will see Druschel work beneath pitching coach Jeremy Hefner after six seasons in pinstripes.
The Yankees lured Druschel away from the College of Iowa — the place he was pitching coach — in 2019, when he grew to become the group’s first minor league supervisor of pitch growth.
He was promoted to the foremost league employees after the 2021 season and had labored beneath Matt Blake in what has been a powerful pipeline for maximizing pitching arms.
Druschel has a historical past with Mets supervisor Carlos Mendoza, the 2 overlapping on the identical main league employees in The Bronx from 2022-23.
He additionally has a relationship with Mets vice chairman of pitching Eric Jagers, who was a pitcher at Iowa when Druschel was pitching coach.
The Mets had poached a Yankees pitching thoughts final winter, too, once they turned the Double-A Somerset pitching coach, Grayson Crawford, into their pitching coach at Triple-A Syracuse.
