Happy for Omar. While Omar Minaya has proven that he´s not exactly qualified to handle a MLB team payroll and especially hand out free agent contracts on his own, he is apparenly a very humble and likeable person who´ll go a long way procuring International talent for the Padres. From what I´ve heard, he´s among the least arrogant major league executives in Baseball. And that´s both at the time he was the “taste of town” in 2005/2006 and when he was a lame duck in 2010. And while being nice doesn´t win games, it may convince the parents of a 16-year-old kid from Santa Domingo to let their son sign with the Padres instead of someone else if money is close to the same.

And while his overall tenure with the Mets is a very mixed bag, pretty much the entire 2012 and quite possibly 2013 rosters – at least most players under age 28 – will be made up of players that were procured under Omar´s watch. The Mets´ farm system – while lacking frontline super-prospects – does have a lot of depth – and most of it was accumulated in the 2nd half of the “Minaya era”.

So, all in all, while I´m happy that our current FO seems to have a Plan (and a few backup plans too) and seems smart and up to date on things, I´m quite sure that close to 50 % of the roster of the next Mets playoff team will be made up of players that joined the organization when Minaya was in charge. Happy that Minaya has a job again – and the Padres organization will benefit, as long as they don´t let him hand out contracts to major league free agents.

He’ll be an asset.