Yanks bring on Minaya as senior advisor to baseball ops
The New York Yankees on Thursday introduced that they’ve appointed Omar Minaya as Senior Advisor to Baseball Operations.
Minaya, 64, joins the Yankees with virtually 4 many years of entrance workplace expertise. The Baseball America ”2022 Trailblazer Award” winner spent the final 12 months serving as an beginner scouting advisor for Major League Baseball. He additionally spent the final six seasons with the New York Mets, serving as a Special Assistant to the General Manager from 2017-20 and a Mets Ambassador from 2020-22. It marked his third stint with the membership after beforehand working because the group’s Senior Assistant General Manager from September 1997 to February 2002 and serving because the Mets Executive Vice President and General Manager from September 2004 to October 2010.
Minaya started his profession with the Texas Rangers, working of their scouting division from 1985-97. He joined the Rangers group as an beginner scout in 1985 whereas additionally teaching the Rookie-level Gulf Coast Rangers from 1985-87. He was named the Latin American Scouting Coordinator for Texas in 1989 and promoted to the Director of Professional and International Scouting in 1994. The Rangers’ skilled scouting division was newly created that season, and it marked the primary time within the historical past of Major League Baseball {that a} membership had devoted a division solely to skilled scouting.
After his first stint with the Mets from 1997-2002, he grew to become baseball’s first Hispanic General Manager when he was appointed Vice President and General Manager of the Montreal Expos in February 2002. He spent three seasons with Montreal (2002-04) earlier than returning to the Mets as their General Manager in 2004. From 2005-10, the Mets posted a 506-466 (.521) file, the third-best mark within the National League throughout that stretch.
From December 2011 to January 2015, Minaya served because the Vice President of Baseball Operations for the San Diego Padres. He additionally spent three years (2015-17) as a Senior Advisor to the Executive Director of the Major League Baseball Players Association earlier than rejoining the Mets in 2017.
Additionally, Minaya was a member of the choice committee for the United States Olympic and Pan-American baseball groups in 2000 when each groups received gold medals.
Minaya was born within the Dominican Republic and grew up in Queens the place he performed baseball at Newtown High School in Elmhurst. He was chosen by the Oakland Athletics within the 14th spherical of the 1978 First-Year Player Draft. After enjoying in each the Athletics and Mariners minor league organizations, he spent two years (1983-84) enjoying professionally in Italy.
