Yankees to part ways with advisers Minaya and Sabean

The New York Yankees are not renewing the contracts of advisers Omar Minaya and Brian Sabean, and both are expected to leave the organization for 2027, according to reporting attributed to Jon Heyman. The club has not publicly established a reason for the decision in the reported accounts. Minaya and Sabean had advised general manager Brian Cashman since joining the Yankees in January 2023. Minaya held the title of senior adviser to baseball operations, while Sabean served as an adviser to Cashman. Their contracts are ending as the Yankees prepare for the next season, while Cashman is staying on as general manager under a new deal announced by the team. The personnel change follows a season in which the Yankees finished second in the American League East and were swept by the Tampa Bay Rays in the American League Division Series. The sweep ended the Yankees’ 2026 postseason. The team’s decision to retain Cashman was announced separately from the reported nonrenewals of the two advisers’ contracts. Both executives brought experience as major-league general managers. Minaya led the Montreal Expos and New York Mets, and Sabean was general manager of the San Francisco Giants,...