The Yankees are moving on from two veteran voices in their baseball operations room. Omar Minaya and Brian Sabean will not have their contracts renewed, according to The New York Post’s Jon Heyman, ending their runs as advisors to general manager Brian Cashman. That leaves both executives free to pursue opportunities elsewhere in baseball.
Both men joined the Yankees in January 2023, with Minaya taking the title of senior advisor to baseball operations and Sabean working as a general advisor to Cashman. Minaya, who is soon to be 68, has spent more than four decades in front offices. His most visible stops came as general manager of the Expos from 2002-04 and the Mets from 2005-10, a stretch that included signing Pedro Martinez and Carlos Beltran as free agents, trading for Johan Santana and drafting Matt Harvey in 2010.
After being fired as Mets GM in October 2010, Minaya moved through several other roles. He worked in the Padres’ baseball operations department, served as an advisor to then-Players Association executive director Tony Clark, returned to the Mets in special assistant and ambassador roles, and later had a brief stint as a consultant for MLB before landing with the Yankees.
He has not served as a GM in any capacity for eight years, dating back to his time on the Mets’ interim committee in 2018 when Sandy Alderson took a leave of absence. Even so, his background should still make him a candidate for advisory work elsewhere.
Sabean’s path is just as deep. He started his front office career with the Yankees in the mid-1980s and helped bring in players who became part of the club’s late-90s dynasty, though he left for the Giants in 1993 before those championships were won.
He then spent three decades in San Francisco, including a run as GM from 1997-2014. During that stretch, he oversaw the Giants’ 2002 World Series appearance and the even-year run of the 2010s, when the club won three World Series titles.
From 2015-22, Sabean worked in non-GM roles before returning to the Yankees. He, too, should draw interest in an advisory capacity, though a direct decision-making role appears less likely.
The market for top baseball operations jobs is thin at the moment, with the Astros’ hiring of Randy Flores leaving the Angels as the only club still searching for a leader in baseball ops. Interim GM John Mozeliak is not a candidate for the full-time job, though he could remain in place until a new GM is hired.
There’s also the possibility that new owner Stan Kroenke wants an experienced executive to guide a multi-year rebuild, but Minaya and Sabean would be long shots for that kind of role given how much time has passed since either man last worked as a full-time GM.
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