Jim Duquette
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James "Jim" Duquette was the general manager of the New York Mets for the 2004 season, before the team replaced him with Omar Minaya.[1] Duquette subsequently stayed with the Mets in a front office job for a full season before moving on to the Baltimore Orioles. With the Orioles former vice president of baseball operations, where he worked under Mike Flanagan, the team's general manager.
Jim Duquette's tenure as the Mets' GM is largely remembered for the trade of top pitching prospect Scott Kazmir to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for the injury-prone and unproductive Victor Zambrano.
Duquette was a standout baseball player himself at Williams College, in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Duquette's cousin, Dan Duquette also was a major league general manager with the Montreal Expos and the Boston Red Sox and is currently the Executive Vice-President of Baseball Operations for the Baltimore Orioles.
He is currently the co-host of "Power Alley" with Kevin Kennedy on Sirius XM's MLB Network Radio on Sirius 209 and XM 89.
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- ^ Finley, Bill (2004-10-01). "Minaya Named Power Source For the Mets". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02EFDD1338F932A35753C1A9629C8B63&pagewanted=print. Retrieved 2009-01-13.
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New York Mets General Manager 2004 |
Succeeded by Omar Minaya |
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