The Yankees revealed Thursday that previous Mets as well as Expos basic supervisor Omar Minaya has actually been employed as a senior advisor to their baseball operations division. It’s the 2nd time today that the Yanks have actually included a valued, previous GM with hunting origins to their front workplace in a consultatory ability. Longtime Giants GM Brian Sabean was employed in a comparable function on Tuesday.
The 64-year-old Minaya functioned as the basic supervisor in Montreal from 2002-04 prior to being employed by the Mets (where he ‘d formerly functioned as an aide GM) as the basic supervisor inQueens He held that function from 2005-10 prior to being changed bySandy Alderson Minaya would certainly take place to invest 5 years as the vice head of state of baseball operations with the Padres, where he was likewise component of an acting GM board in 2014 when the Padres rejected Josh Byrnes midseason as well as waited till after the year to tab existing head of state of baseball ops A.J. Preller as his substitute. Minaya functioned as the Padres’ factor individual for trade-related issues in the summer season of 2014.
Minaya has actually invested virtually 40 years in baseball operations, holding numerous hunting as well as exec functions with the Rangers, Mets, Expos, Padres as well as in the organization’s headquarters. The YES Network’s Jack Curry, that initially reported that the Yankees were readied to introduce the hiring of Minaya, tweets that the enhancement of expert directors like Minaya as well as Sabean becomes part of an initiative by the Yankees to develop even more of an equilibrium in between conventional hunting knowledge as well as even more contemporary, data-driven methods to gamer examination.
