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Will Bernazard's absence affect Omar?

Quick ReadCan Omar Minaya be a better GM without Bernazard?

Mets' General Manager, Omar Minaya at batting practice.

Photo credit: Newsday / Kathy Kmonicek | Mets' General Manager, Omar Minaya at batting practice.

Jim Baumbach

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The transaction warranted only a few paragraphs in the newspapers at the time, but in hindsight the move certainly had one heck of a long-lasting impact.

Exactly 41 days after Omar Minaya was hired as Mets general manager in 2004, he brought a friend onto his staff to be his right-hand man.

Name: Tony Bernazard.

You may have heard of him.

The point is, Bernazard has been...

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