The Yankees continued their efforts to bulk up the entrance workplace Thursday bringing in Omar Minaya, the previous Mets common supervisor 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 baby, turns into the second former common supervisor to hitch Brian Cashman and the Yankees this week, following the hiring of longtime former San Francisco Giants government Brian Sabean on Tuesday.
The 64-year-old Minaya has over 30 years of expertise in scouting and baseball operations with the Mets, Montreal Expos, Texas Rangers and San Diego Padres. He grew to become the primary Latin American common supervisor in MLB historical past in 2002 when he was named government vice current and GM to the Expos. In three stints with the Mets, the crew he grew up watching, he has labored as a GM, an assistant common supervisor, a particular assistant to the GM and an envoy. He most not too long ago labored with the league as an newbie scouting advisor.
The winner of the 2022 Baseball America Trailblazer Award, Minaya has been credited with serving to to deliver most of the sport’s Latin American and Caribbean stars to the foremost leagues. A longtime champion of variety within the sport, the Newtown High School grad helped the Mets rejoice the tradition and introduced a number of high-profile Spanish-speaking gamers to Queens, like Carlos Beltran, Pedro Martinez and Johan Santana.
Known for having a eager scouting eye, he drafted a number of of the gamers that led the Mets to the 2015 World Series, together with pitchers Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey and Steven Matz.
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