Ex-Met GM Omar Minaya joins Yankees as a senior advisor to baseball operations
Minaya, who grew up in Queens after coming to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a child, becomes the second former general manager to join Brian Cashman and the Yankees this week, following the hiring of longtime former San Francisco Giants executive Brian Sabean on Tuesday. He became the first Latin American general manager in MLB history in 2002...
The Yankees continued their efforts to bulk up the front office Thursday bringing in Omar Minaya, the former Mets general manager to work as a senior advisor to baseball operations.
Minaya, who grew up in Queens after coming to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a child, becomes the second former general manager to join Brian Cashman and the Yankees this week, following the hiring of longtime former San Francisco Giants executive Brian Sabean on Tuesday.
The 64-year-old Minaya has over 30 years of experience in scouting and baseball operations with the Mets, Montreal Expos, Texas Rangers and San Diego Padres. He became the first Latin American general manager in MLB history in 2002 when he was named executive vice present and GM to the Expos. In three stints with the Mets, the team he grew up watching, he has worked as a GM, an assistant general manager, a special assistant to the GM and an ambassador. He most recently worked with the league as an amateur scouting consultant.
The winner of the 2022 Baseball America Trailblazer Award, Minaya has been credited with helping to bring many of the game’s Latin American and Caribbean stars to the major leagues. A longtime champion of diversity in the game, the Newtown High School grad helped the Mets celebrate the culture and brought several high-profile Spanish-speaking players to Queens, like Carlos Beltran, Pedro Martinez and Johan Santana.
Known for having a keen scouting eye, he drafted several of the players that led the Mets to the 2015 World Series, including pitchers Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey and Steven Matz.
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