The Mets try to enhance their pitching department by reportedly plucking from the Yankees.
Desi Druschel, who had served as Yankees assistant pitching coach since 2022, has been hired for a similar role in Queens, SNY reported Monday.
The Mets and Yankees didn’t confirm the event, which reportedly will see Druschel work underneath pitching coach Jeremy Hefner after six seasons in pinstripes.
The Yankees lured Druschel away from the University of Iowa — where he was pitching coach — in 2019, when he became the organization’s first minor league manager of pitch development.
He was promoted to the key league staff after the 2021 season and had worked below Matt Blake in what has been a powerful pipeline for maximizing pitching arms.
Druschel has a history with Mets manager Carlos Mendoza, the 2 overlapping on the identical major league staff in The Bronx from 2022-23.
He also has a relationship with Mets vp of pitching Eric Jagers, who was a pitcher at Iowa when Druschel was pitching coach.
The Mets had poached a Yankees pitching mind last winter, too, once they turned the Double-A Somerset pitching coach, Grayson Crawford, into their pitching coach at Triple-A Syracuse.
