Not popular to say, but it's a real credit to Omar Minaya. I'd never trust the guy with my payroll but he sure cut the mustard as a scout. And it's a credit to Alderson that he hasn't turned over the roster and the system to put his own mark on the organization in his first year and a half (like Minaya did). He saw something worth nurturing and he has. Making virtue of necessity, sure, but virtue nonetheless.