Jim Duquette is an American baseball executive. He was the general manager of the New York Mets from 2003–2004, 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 serves as a prominent host on SiriusXM's MLB Network Radio, where he has been a full-time baseball analyst. His extensive work includes hosting shows directly from spring training locations, as well as providing in-depth analysis for every League Championship Series (LCS) and World Series since 2009. [2]
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 right-handed pitcher, Victor Zambrano. That very same day, Duquette also traded away future All-Star José Bautista.
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 was most recently 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. In 2019, the three Duquettes were among 15 athletes, five coaches and three contributors to be inducted into the inaugural Dalton CRA Athletic Hall of Fame in Dalton, Mass.
Duquette donated his kidney to his 10 year old daughter in a procedure at Johns Hopkins Hospital on June 4, 2012.[3][4] He serves on the board of the NephCure Kidney International, an organization dedicated to raising funds and awareness for kidney diseases, including Nephrotic Syndrome and Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), conditions that his daughter was diagnosed with prior to undergoing a kidney transplant.[5]
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.[6] He is also a columnist for The Athletic.[7]
For the 2012 season Duquette joined WFAN as a fill-in commentator for their NY Mets radio broadcasts.
