nybaseballdigest.com - 23 days ago
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During the summer I was talking to a league source that believed one of Omar Minaya’s biggest failures was that he ignored some of the good baseball people in the Mets organization. One of those people was Sandy Johnson who originally was brought in to mentor Minaya in 2004. I was told ...
sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 24 days ago
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Sources say longtime scout Sandy Johnson has agreed
to return to the Mets as VP of scouting
to continue assisting embattled general manager Omar Minaya after suggesting for weeks he was likely to retire, and some Mets officials believe the unusual ...
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Mets' maneuvers bad news for Minaya
amazinavenue.com - 19 days ago
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amazinavenue.com —
On July 27, 2002, Omar Minaya, then General
Manager of the Montreal Expos, traded Lee Steven, Brandon
Phillips , Grady Sizemore , and Cliff Lee to Mark Shapiro's Indians for Bartolo Colon and Tim Drew . In 2002, Major League Baseball owned the ...
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Why Omar Minaya Failed And What It Means For The Future
bases.nbcsports.com - 23 days ago
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bases.nbcsports.com —
It may not happen right now, but according
to Jon Heyman's sources, the Mets are putting people
in place with the intention of ensuring a smooth transition in the event Minaya is fired early in the 2010 season. Indeed, the source refers ...
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The Mets are setting the stage to fire Omar Minaya
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A Johnson/Ricco coup coming...
Mets Fever —
... I was told that Johnson had become increasingly frustrated the last couple of seasons because of his inability to connect with Minaya on various issues. source NYBD ...
Heyman : Mets Re-Introducing Candidate To Breathe Down Omar’s Neck
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
... NY Baseball Digest’s Mike Silva has it on good (albeit anonymous) authority Mets GM Omar Minaya is a lousy listener. This winter, Minaya might want to feign fascination with what others in the organization have to say, if not learn to work by committee, as ...
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metsfansforever.com 10/6/2009 — Author: Greg Pomes The 2009 season is (thankfully) over. The Mets have started work for the 2010 season. Today CEO Jeff Wilpon, General Manager Omar Minaya and Executive Dave Howard joined Mike Francesa on WFAN to talk about this awful 2009 season and what's ahead of them for 2010. They ...
A Johnson/Ricco coup coming...
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Today I’m taking a look at what Omar must do to keep his job! I honestly believe that Omar’s job is not in jeopardy this offseason (barring a new media fiasco), so the focus of this piece will be what he’ll have to do to keep his job ...
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Ever since the Tony B. / Adam Rubin fiasco, we haven’t heard much from Omar Minaya except to announce a few player moves and even at those times, Mets PR VP Jay Horwitz was close by to prevent any further ...
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metsmerizedonline.com 10/6/2009 — Everywhere you turned yesterday, the top story, as far as us Mets fans are concerned, was the Mets road show of Jeff Wilpon, Omar Minaya and Dave Howard. One or all of them appeared at Citi Field where they kicked off their tour, followed by some candid one on ones with various SNY ...
Who's the real GM, Omar or Jeff...
metsfever.blogspot.com 10/15/2009 — I thought by this time of the off-season Omar would have already assumed a new title, something fancy like President of baseball operations. Title aside it would basically mean that John Ricco or some former GM would be in front of the mics and making personnel decisions. But according to ...
How Does Bernazard With Boras Impact Mets?
nybaseballdigest.com 10/19/2009 — So Tony Bernazard is about to join the Scott Boras Corporation. Apparently Boras is going to elicit Bernazard’s help in stealing Latin clients away from the competition. Knowing Bernazard’s history of how he poisoned the Mets organization I wonder if he will do the same with Boras ...
Jeff Wilpon Takes No Responsibility
metsmerizedonline.com 10/6/2009 — With the 2009 season finally over, the rebuilding for 2010 officially has started. Yesterday Jeff Wilpon along with Jerry Manuel and Omar Minaya had a press conference, discussing this horrible 2009 season and what to look forward to for the 2010 season. Later on in the afternoon/early ...
Heyman : Mets Re-Introducing Candidate To Breathe Down Omar’s Neck
cantstopthebleeding.com 23 days ago —
NY Baseball Digest’s Mike Silva has it on good (albeit anonymous) authority Mets GM Omar Minaya is a lousy listener . This winter, Minaya might want to feign fascination with what others in the organization have to say, if not learn to work by committee, as SI.com’s Jon Heyman ...
“In Omar We Trust(ed)”
metsmerizedonline.com 10 days ago — Omar Minaya was hired prior to the 2005 season to turn around the floundering New York Mets. The team and its management were in chaos. The Mets had completed three consecutive losing seasons with 86, 95, and 91 losses. The low point occurred in 2004 when the Mets traded top prospect ...
A Championship-Caliber 2010 Mets Team —
Bleacher Report - MLB 25 days ago
After going through a horrific, injury-plagued 2009 campaign, the New York Mets head in this winter's Hot Stove with many questions and seemingly too few answers.
Everyone's knee-jerk response to solving their issues revolve around signing a ...
This time, Bombers —
NY Post: Sports 25 days ago
Jimmy Rollins is entitled to his voice, and to his swagger, and to his braggadocio. As the Mets have discovered relentlessly across the last three years, the talk he talks is outpaced only by the walk he walks. When he says the Phillies are the team ...
Hale now on third for Mets —
NYDailyNews.com - Baseball 24 days ago
Chip Hale is expected to be named the Mets' new third base coach after the World Series. Hale, 44, spent the past three seasons in that role with the Diamondbacks after six years in that organization as a minor-league manager.
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