(New York) Omar Minaya joined the New York Yankees on Thursday, where he will serve as senior baseball operations advisor.
In doing so, he becomes the third former general manager of a major league baseball team to join the team of Brian Cashman, current general manager of the Yankees.
The 64-year-old Minaya has become the first man of Latin descent to be given the role of general manager of a major league baseball team, a position he first held with the Montreal Expos, 2002 to 2004. Then, he held identical positions with the New York Mets, between 2004 and 2010.
On Tuesday, Brian Sabean, a former general manager of the San Francisco Giants, was named an executive adviser to Cashman.
Jim Hendry, who served as general manager with the Chicago Cubs, has worked with Cashman since 2012 as a special assignments scout.
A native of the Dominican Republic, Minaya became a scout with the Texas Rangers in 1984 and signed Sammy Sosa to a contract. He later became Director of Professional and International Scouting.
He left in September 1997 to become assistant general manager with the Mets, a team based in the Queens borough of New York City, where Minaya grew up.
Minaya also worked with the San Diego Padres from 2011 to 2015 before becoming a senior advisor to Tony Clark, executive director of the Players Association, until December 2017. He returned to work for the Mets until November 2020.
Since February, he had worked for Major League Baseball as an amateur scouting consultant.