Ex-Yank big fishin’ for $$ to buy Marlins

The ex-Yankee exec who drafted Derek Jeter in 1992 may now help him and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with their bid to buy the Miami Marlins, The Post has learned.

Former Yankee managing general partner Joe Malloy has teamed up with ex-Yankee general counsel David Sussman to seek investors to buy the Marlins, their banker Dana Pawlicki from Stonington Capital Partners told The Post.

If Malloy and Sussman raise the money, then they might be open to partnering with Bush and Jeter, who have been seeking funds for their own highly publicized bid.

“He [Malloy] regularly talks to Derek. He goes over to his house,” Pawlicki said. Both Malloy and Jeter live in the Tampa, Fla., area.

Still, Malloy and Sussman haven’t yet lined up the more than $1 billion that’s needed to buy the team. Malloy is in talks with a US billionaire and, separately, a foreign investor who are inter- ested in the Marlins, Pawlicki said.

Perhaps Malloy would not need to own the team, and might be satisfied having a stake and running business operations, Pawlicki said.

Former Gov. Bush told The Post last week he was “confident” his effort to buy the team would succeed. However, Bush and Jeter “are not close” to raising the needed cash, a baseball source with “100 percent” confidence told The Post Thursday.

The Bush/Jeter team has a rival suitor, Tagg Romney, son of the pri- vate equity mogul and former presidential nominee Mitt Romney, Also, billionaire Dean Metropoulos, who controls Hostess Brands, is in the hunt.

Malloy, the ex-husband of George Steinbrenner’s daughter, Jessica, ran the Yankees from 1992 to 1993 when The Boss was suspended from baseball.

It was during this time that Malloy helped build the Yankee team that won the World Series in 1996, their first title in 18 years.