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Former Mets GM Omar Minaya Joining Yankees

Former New York Mets General Manager Omar Minaya is back in a baseball front office, this time across town with the New York Yankees. Minaya who served as Mets GM…

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LOS ANGELES, CA – JULY 24: New York Mets general manager Omar Minaya looks on from the dugout prior to the start of the game against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium on July 24, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jeff Gross/Getty Images)

Former New York Mets General Manager Omar Minaya is back in a baseball front office, this time across town with the New York Yankees.

Minaya who served as Mets GM from 2004 to 2010, and oversaw the resurgence of the Amazin's in the mid-00's, which included a run to the NLCS in 2006, will join the Yanks as a senior advisor of baseball operations.

Minaya was responsible for the Amazin's drafting of Jacob deGrom, and pioneered a club that had the likes of David Wright, Jose Reyes and Carlos Beltran. When Minaya joined the Mets in 2004, he changed the culture back toward a winning mentality.

Minaya, 64, joins former San Francisco Giants GM Brian Sabean as a front office member of the Yankees. Sabean, who was once the Director of Scouting for the Yankees in the late 80s and early 90s, returns as an executive advisor.  Sabean went on to great success in San Francisco, winning three World Series titles in 2010, 2012 and 2014.

That means General Manager Brian Cashman will have two of baseball's best GM's at his side this season.

Michael Cohen is the News and Sports Director at Fox Sports Radio New Jersey and Magic 98.3 FM, as well as a radio production assistant with Fox and Magic in New Jersey. He started his career in Somerset in 2018 initially as a news fill-in at WCTC 1450 AM, and soon moved up to higher responsibilities in the ensuing years, assuming News & Sports Director title in 2021Prior to his time with Fox Sports New Jersey, Michael was play-by-play voice for New Jersey Jackals baseball, and as well as play-by-play and color for the College of Staten Island basketball (men and women), softball and baseball. Michael began his career as a news and sportswriter with the Jersey Journal of Hudson County.