MLB hires longtime executive Omar Minaya as consultant

Minaya was selected by the Oakland Athletics in the 14th round of the 1978 MLB June Amateur Draft and spent parts of the next seven years playing in the minor leagues. The now-62-year-old began his front office career in 1985 with the Texas Rangers' scouting team.

Minaya joined the New York Mets franchise in the mid-1990s and served as the team's assistant general manager. He became the first Hispanic GM in MLB history when he joined the Montreal Expos in the role in early 2002, the franchise's third-to-last season before becoming the Washington Nationals.

The native of the Dominican Republic resigned from his post with the Expos in September 2004 and was soon re-hired by the Mets, this time as the organization's GM. During the next six seasons with Minaya in charge, New York made the postseason just once, reaching the NLCS in 2006 before falling to the eventual World Series-champion St. Louis Cardinals in seven games.

Minaya was fired from the Mets following the 2010 campaign and was hired as the senior vice president of baseball operations of the San Diego Padres in 2011. Minaya held that role until January 2015, before joining the MLBPA as a senior advisor to executive director Tony Clark.

He joined the Mets for a third time in December 2017 as a special assistant to GM Sandy Alderson, was dismissed from the role in November 2020 and was re-hired again in an ambassadorship position in January 2021.