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by Chris Mazzone on February 18th, 2008 at 3:24 pm

In his latest for SI.com, Jon Heyman ranks Omar Minaya as the 8th best general manager in baseball, saying…

“His brilliant 2006 season in which he pilfered Oliver Perez from the Pirates and John Maine from the Orioles, two teams that could have used their services, was followed by a 2007 that featured some costly mistakes — trading Heath Bell, Brian Bannister and Matt Lindstrom and getting practically nothing for them in the offseason, and then doing little to help prevent a late-season collapse that left the Mets one game short.”

…i think it’s a pretty fair ranking…there’s no doubt in my mind that, even before acquiring Johan Santana, minaya had been far more good than bad while turning the Mets into contenders