NEW YORK -- Former Mets general manager Omar Minaya was hired by Major League Baseball on Wednesday as a consultant for amateur scouting.
He will advise the baseball operations department on both domestic and international scouting initiatives. Minaya will report to Morgan Sword, the executive vice president of baseball operations.
Minaya, 63, became a scout with the Texas Rangers in 1984 and signed Sammy Sosa. He moved up eventually to director of professional and international scouting and left in September 1997 to become an assistant general manager with his hometown Mets.
He joined the Montreal Expos as major league baseball's first Hispanic GM in February 2002.