Just around this time last year the World Series was just
ending and the long winter before Spring Training was beginning with little in
the way of news. The New York Yankees had missed the postseason for the second
straight season despite spending in excess of $500 million the offseason before
in trades, signings and extensions and the fans and the organization were
hungry for a new voice and vision. That vision and voice was thought to be of
Omar Minaya, the former New York Mets GM, but for some unreported reason Minaya
never joined his close friend Brian Cashman and the New York Yankees
organization, could he before the 2016 season though?
Say what you will about Minaya but the New York Mets are not
in the World Series right now without him. Minaya whiffed, and sometimes he
whiffed badly, with the Mets but when he hit on a deal he usually struck it
big. The problem was he was not given enough time to see some of those deals
and his ultimate plan come to fruition.
Minaya is responsible for drafting Daniel Murphy in 2006 and
Mike Pelfrey, Bobby Parnell and Jon Niese in 2005. In fact many of the Mets
young pieces that are either being utilized now or were used in trades to
acquire other pieces were drafted and signed internationally by Minaya including
Lucas Duda and Steven Matz. This in no way is meant to discount what Sandy
Alderson has done for the club, many of the young aces you see now were signed
and developed under his tenure, but he had a little help building a World
Series caliber team by Minaya in my opinion.
The Yankees have basically given one of their top scouts Tim
Naehring the vacant job left behind by Billy Eppler but they fell short of
mentioning him as the team’s assistant GM. Could Minaya fill that void? As long
as he’s bringing another Steven Matz with him then I’d have to say yes. What could it
hurt when Hal Steinbrenner likely makes the final decision anyway?
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Sorry for the Capatcha... Blame the Russians :)