amazinavenue.com - 28 days ago
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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 Expos. The offseason before, the Expos had ...
sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 10/29/2009
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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
nybaseballdigest.com - 10/29/2009
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nybaseballdigest.com —
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 ...
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Maybe Now Omar Will Listen
metsfansforever.com - 25 days ago
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Author: Greg Pomes Thankfully the World Series is
finally over, meaning that the 2009 baseball season is...
over and the Hot Stove season is upon us now. There is going to be a lot of pressure on the Mets now to improve the team and not just for the way the 2009 season ...
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Will Hideki Matsui Be A Met Next Year?
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Amazin’ Avenue: Page: Why Omar Minaya Failed And What It Means For The Future
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
Amazin’ Avenue: Page: Why Omar Minaya Failed And What It Means For The Future On Halloween I went to a party as Ben Baumer. Nobody noticed. But maybe it is too late for that. As fielding stats get more widely accepted, it seems a glorified Moneyball scenario, where a few teams with superior objective analysis carry an edge, is becoming less likely. As more players, are signing long-term deals with the teams that drafted them, and fewer are hitting free agency, the statistical analysis the Mets have been so neglectful of becomes just the baseline. Indeed, as Jay wrote about some ...
Read: Failure and the Future
MetsBlog.com —
... In what is a must-read post for Amazin Avenue, Sam Page explains how Omar Minaya has failed as a GM, and what it means for the team’s future. ...
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feedproxy.google.com 10/1/2009 —
How does he keep his job? The world may never know!
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 ...
“In Omar We Trust(ed)”
metsmerizedonline.com 19 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 ...
Is Omar Really Safe?
metsmerizedonline.com 9/23/2009 — Is Omar Minaya really as safe as the Mets are wanting the public to believe?
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 ...
The Mets are setting the stage to fire Omar Minaya
bases.nbcsports.com 10/29/2009 — 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 ...
A Johnson/Ricco coup coming...
metsfever.blogspot.com 10/29/2009 — I'm not really sure why the Wilpon's decided to keep Omar Minaya, is it really his contract extension which equates to little more then what Alex Cora would make in a season or do they want a figure head who could easily become a sacrificial lamb if things go bad. It makes sense from Omar ...
Mets Take Their Act On The Road…
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 ...
Minaya is running out of loyal followers
newsday.com 9/24/2009 — September 23, 2009 By DAVID LENNON david.lennon@newsday.com Mets' General Manager, Omar Minaya Photo credit: Newsday / Kathy Kmonicek | Mets' General Manager, Omar Minaya at batting practice. In happier times for the Mets , during spring training ...
The Mets clean house
bases.nbcsports.com 9/23/2009 — It's a mystery to me why the Mets don't want to fire Omar Minaya, but maybe getting rid of everyone who works for and advises him may be the next best thing. The Daily News:The Mets have fired Ramon Pena,...
Heyman : Mets Re-Introducing Candidate To Breathe Down Omar’s Neck
cantstopthebleeding.com 10/29/2009 —
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 ...
The Mets Are Office Space
nybaseballdigest.com 9/24/2009 — I mentioned a Ken Davidoff column earlier when talking about the Yankees potential postseason roster. There was a small blurb at the end of the piece regarding the Mets and the recent firings of some Omar Minaya staffers.
The Mets will fire Ramon Pena in the front office (scroll down, on ...
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