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Friday, December 02, 2011
I get my Naval Base Percentage from San Diego!
A year after seeing his five-year stint as Mets general manager end with a thud, Omar Minaya is back in the baseball biz after being hired by the San Diego Padres to an undisclosed front office position.
The move, first reported by SI.com, will most likely see Minaya in an advisory role to Padres GM Josh Byrnes and deal with scouting – particularly in Latin America – and trades.
Minaya, 53, who was fired by the Mets in October 2010, was the Amazins GM from 2005 through the 2010 season and saw his share of ups and downs in Queens.
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1. The usual palaver and twaddle (Met Fan Charlie) Posted: December 02, 2011 at 08:50 PM (#4005378)Coincidence? I think not...
GM for the Cubs?
In other words, he'd be taking a job in San Diego, probably.
This. Omar didn't do anything productive to improve the 2006 team after they lost. If they win, things follow the same path.
Also, we can get into whether or not the WS win creates an increased payroll for 2007. Or does it buy Willie Randolph another year? Do either of these things matter?
If they win, I suspect the collapse of 2007 never happens. I know that's massively speculative, but the pressure the 2007 team was under after falling short in 2006 was part of what led the 2007 team to fold. It may have played only a small part, but every little thing makes a difference when a team comes that close. I think a more relaxed Mets' team coming off a WS team has reserves of confidence instead of the questions that failure brought, and they survive.
As for the rest, you just can't speculate what else might have been different. Maybe if they'd won, a whole series of events is just a little different. Maybe Jose Valentin gets hurt in the WS in a way that would have led the Mets to decide they had to bring in a different 2B in spring training 2007, and they never trade for Luis Castillo. Maybe a WS win would have led Minaya to go in a different direction than Moises Alou, whose injury problems were so integral to what ailed the Mets.
It's just impossible to say, I guess.
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