Yanks set to reel in Stanton from Marlins

MIAMI» After helping the New York Yankees win five World Series titles, Derek Jeter might help them win another.

The Yankees and Jeter’s Miami Marlins agreed on Saturday to a trade that would send National League MVP Giancarlo Stanton to New York, pending a physical.

Second baseman Starlin Castro would go to Miami as part of the trade. The Marlins also would receive prospects Jorge Guzman, a right-hander, and Jose Devers, an infielder who is a cousin of Boston Red Sox prospect Rafael Devers.

The deal calls for the Marlins to send $30 million to the Yankees if Stanton doesn’t exercise his right to opt out of his contract and become a free agent after the 2020 season.

Stanton has a no-trade clause in his record $325 million, 13-year contract and has indicated he will approve the trade.

St. Louis and San Francisco said Friday that Stanton had vetoed deals to them.

As for the physical, injuries curtailed Stanton’s season in four of the past six years, but he played a career-high 159 games in 2017 and led the majors with 59 homers and 132 RBIS.

If the Yankees complete the trade with Jeter, their former captain and the new Marlins CEO, the Bronx Bombers would pair Stanton with Aaron Judge, who led the American League with 52 homers in his rookie season. An eight-year veteran with 267 home runs, Stanton has never played on a winning team and might now go to a club that hasn’t had a losing record since 1992.

The Yankees reached Game 7 of the AL Championship Series this season in the first full year of a youth movement.

Stanton is owed $295 million over the final decade of his record $325 million, 13year contract. The all-star right fielder led the majors in homers and RBIS, and his salary will rise to $25 million in 2018.

Jeter is expected to reduce payroll by at least 20 percent to $90 million or less.