Former Met GM Omar Minaya is the current, Sr. VP of Baseball Operations for the San Diego Padres. He previously served as General Manager for the Montreal Expos and New York Mets.Born in the Dominican Republic, he moved to Elmhurst, where, he starred as a baseball player at Newtown High School in Elmhurst. He was drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 14th Round (342nd overall) of the 1978 Major League Baseball Draft, In the mid-1990s, he joined the staff of the New York Mets, working his way to Assistant General Manager behind Steve Phillips and being partly responsible for that team's late-1990s success. He became the first Hispanic to hold a general manager position in Major League Baseball when he left the Mets in early 2002 to accept the General Manager position with the Montréal Expos. He returned to the Mets as General Manager following the 2004 season and was the GM for the Mets , His tenure produced winning seasons and star power and allure to the franchise, Aj and Mark talk about to him about his tenure in NY and his current Padre team.

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