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Minaya might hire fired GMs

Omar Minaya reached out to Kevin Towers and J.P. Ricciardi over the weekend to express his support after the two were fired as general managers and also to lay the groundwork to speak to both soon about possible jobs in the Mets’ organization, The Post has learned.

Minaya views both as friends whose strength as talent evaluators would be assets at a time when the Mets are trying to improve both their roster and the process by which they judge players.

It is an intriguing and potentially nervy move by Minaya. Towers with San Diego and Ricciardi in Toronto were long-serving GMs before being dismissed. If one or both come to the Mets, they would be arriving at a time when Minaya is not in an overly secure spot despite being about to start a three-year contract extension.

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Should the Mets fail to make the playoffs next year, Minaya’s chance of being fired himself would be very likely.

Thus, Minaya could potentially be putting his replacement into the organization. However, if he were able to hire Towers and/or Ricciardi, Minaya also would be possibly installing executives to help him save his job.

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Minaya has been criticized this year for surrounding himself with friends and listening to too few dissenting points of view.

Towers and Ricciardi have reputations for being good talent evaluators. Towers, for example, fleeced Minaya to obtain Heath Bell for Jon Adkins and Ben Johnson. In his days as Oakland’s top lieutenant when it came to advising trades, Ricciardi recommended that the A’s obtain Jason Isringhausen for Billy Taylor.

Of the two, Towers more than Ricciardi is viewed as much more likely to be hired again as a GM.

joel.sherman@nypost.com