For Minaya, Lots of Wheeling, Not Much Dealing
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When Omar Minaya was the general manager of the Expos, most of his major moves had to wait until January, when he could sort through baseball&#39;s bargain bins.
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CHICAGO -- It's hard enough trying to hit a 5-ounce sphere hurtling toward the plate at 90-something miles an hour. For David Ortiz , it's even harder trying to do it batting fourth in the Red Sox lineup, although he didn't have much trouble last night.
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As much as Omar Minaya and his staff have lauded Mike Pelfrey during the off-season, there is no place for him in the Metsâ rotation.
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As Omar Minaya and Brian Cashman depart for Thanksgiving vacations with their families, they have a lot in the oven but not much on the table.
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Arizona manager Bob Melvin isn't surprised by late-inning heroics anymore, not even when they come from a young outfielder hobbling around on a bad ankle.
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Not even the sudden on-court appearance of the Spanish equivalent of Morganna the Kissing Bandit late in Sunday&#39;s match between Andy Roddick and Carlos Moya could disrupt
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Experienced, power-laden lineups and a favorite&#39;s role haven&#39;t been a winning combination for the Braves in recent postseaons.
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Rudy Jaramillo remembers meeting Omar Minaya on a field in the Gulf Coast League in 1985, when they were charged with instructing about 50 minor leaguers from the Texas Rangers organization.
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Omar Minaya, the Mets' general manager, acknowledged that negotiations on a one-year contract with Al Leiter had stalled.
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NEW YORK -- It was a major league pitching performance. It may not have been a $4.5-million-a-month performance, but if you're the Yankees, that issue is a nonstarter because we're talking about Roger Clemens. Nothing about Roger Clemens is normal.
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Several factors went into Omar Minaya&#39;s decision to hire Willie Randolph as the new manager of the Mets. One of them involved Kaz Matsui.
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Omar Minaya grew up a few blocks from Shea Stadium and realizes the task ahead of him. &quot;We know as New Yorkers nobody wants to hear excuses.
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Perhaps he was trying to be too fine with his pitches. Perhaps he was trying too hard to pinpoint his location. And perhaps Fausto Carmona wasn't being as aggressive as he should have been against the Red Sox in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series.
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For days, Omar Minaya was hedging and bluffing, trying to carefully hide his intentions. Finally, he just threw his cards on the table and came up with an ace.
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NEW YORK -- Omar Minaya stood behind a small lectern in a danky room in the bowels of Shea Stadium, and allowed his life to flash before his eyes.
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NEW YORK -- This morning, Ricardo Mayorga probably wishes he'd smoked fewer cigarettes while training for last night's showdown with Felix Trinidad at Madison Square Garden.
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It was not quite what Carlos Moya missed the first time. The setting was not his country&#39;s tennis capital and his former home, Barcelona, but the capital of the Spanish region Andalusia.