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11/11/2004 7:32 AM ET
Last Japan tour for Bernazard
Will join Mets' front office once MLB tour ends
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By Barry M. Bloom / MLB.com |
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| Tony Bernazard watches the game Thursday night in Sapporo, Japan. (Ben Platt/MLB.com)
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SAPPORO, Japan -- With a tinge of excitement and just a little sadness, Tony Bernazard is making his last Japan All-Star Series tour as an employee of the Major League Baseball Players Association.
When this eight-game, five-city excursion ends on Sunday in Tokyo, Bernazard will return to the U.S. and join the Mets as an assistant to new general manager Omar Minaya. In New York, he'll help Minaya rebuild the Mets organization. During his 13 years with the union, he has overseen every facet of building the MLB team that tours Japan every other year.
This is Bernazard's seventh and final tour. Bobby Bonilla, a special assistant for the union who may replace Bernazard, has accompanied him on the trip this time around. The former Pirates slugger, who won a World Series with the Florida Marlins in 1997, has been a major presence.
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