Michael Fulmer hopes Yankees can finally be more permanent stop

Michael Fulmer was at LaGuardia Airport on Tuesday night, waiting through a layover and ready to travel to Worcester to meet up with the Yankees’ Triple-A team.  Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.He had just signed with the Yankees, who all of a sudden had holes to fill in their injury-riddled bullpen.

Before he got on his connecting flight, the Yankees called him and told him to leave the airport and come join the big league team in New York, rather than head to the minors. It’s the latest stop on what seems like a never-ending tour around the league for Fulmer — one that he’d like to now result in a more permanent home. “Just trying to figure out what teams want,” Fulmer said before the game against the Astros on Wednesday night in The Bronx.“This will be my seventh organization in the last two years, unfortunately.

I’ve been around the whole country just trying to find a place to stick.” The Yankees placed Fernando Cruz on the injured list Wednesday with right elbow discomfort amid a few rough outings for their previously reliable reliever.It created an opening for Fulmer to immediately be activated and have a bullpen role in which he can potentially make this more than a short-term destination. Fulmer, the 2016 Rookie of the Year and an All-Star in 2017 with the Tigers, has already been released by the Giants and Angels this season.

Mets fans will remember him as a former top prospect whom the team memorably dealt to the Tigers in exchange for Yoenis Cespedes at the 2015 trade deadline.Cespedes helped carry the Mets to the World Series that year, while Fulmer turned into a solid starter for the Tigers. “Being a visiting player, you’re playing the Yankees — everybody dreams of it, everybody dreams to play in Yankee Stadium,” Fulmer said.

“It’s good to be on this side of it.”But after undergoing his second Tommy John ...

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