"James "Jim" Duquette" was the general manager of the New York Mets for the 2004 season, before the team replaced him with Omar Minaya. 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 (baseball player)/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. His brother, Pat Duquette is the head men's basketball coach at UMass Lowell River Hawks men's basketball/UMass Lowell.

He is currently the co-host of "Power Alley" with Mike Ferrin on Sirius XM's MLB Network Radio on Sirius 209 and XM 89.

For the 2012 season Duquette joined WFAN as a fill in commentator for their NY Mets radio broadcasts.

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I view this as a step up. I feel I have more authority, more responsibility, more power with the Orioles. If I thought it was a lateral move, I wouldn't be coming down there.

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What you don't want to do is put too much pressure on them, too much added expectations. They had enough expectations in New York. I don't know if you can ever ease a player into the New York scene. It's something that a guy like Carlos Beltran, Mike Piazza, Cliff Floyd, they can take the pressure off the two young guys so they can go about their business and develop at their own pace.

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It's a fairly extensive restructuring. I don't go into the reasons, but you can infer why.

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They both have the makeup that you're looking for to be the cornerstones of the organization.

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We haven't decided what we're going to do yet, ... We're still talking about it.

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This was a tough loss for us. We're still hopeful, but we all knew the importance of this game. We needed [a win] to stop the bleeding.

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He's got 173 at-bats (before Wednesday), and with the numbers he has been able to put up in that short window, he's been really impressive. We're definitely excited, but we have to temper it because he's still so young. We know he has a lot of room for improvement.

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We've had players with potential before, but not with the work ethic that they have. The thing about these two is that you know that whatever their potential is, they're going to reach it.

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It's still ongoing, so I don't have a number for you. But there have been a fair amount of scouts fired or reassigned on the amateur side.

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