Wade rejoins Phillies organization
Former Phillies and Astros general manager Ed Wade has re-joined the Phillies as a special consultant to the baseball operations department, the team said.
Wade rejoins Phillies organization
Daily News staff
Former Phillies and Astros general manager Ed Wade has re-joined the Phillies as a special consultant to the baseball operations department, the team said.
"Ed had a very positive impact on the success we had in 2008 and his experience and knowledge will be a solid addition to what I feel is as good a baseball operations staff as there is in the game," general maanger Ruben Amaro Jr. said in a statement.
In his new role with the Phillies, Wade will assist in salary arbitration consultation, while also scouting at both the major and minor league levels.
Wade, 55, served as general manager for parts of 13 years for both the Phillies (1998-2005) and the Houston Astros (2007-11), where his teams combined for a record of 942-1,010 (.483).
Wade was fired after the 2005 season by the Phillies and was succeeded by Pat Gillick. Wade spent a year with the Padres in scouting before joining the Houston. He was fired this season with 2 yers left on his contract when new ownership took over.
In his final five seasons as Phillies GM, the team went 426-383 (.527), the sixth-best record in the National League in that span, ahead of teams such as the Chicago Cubs, New York Mets, Colorado Rockies and Cincinnati Reds, among others.
During his time as GM in Philadelphia, Wade acquired players such as Jim Thome, Shane Victorino and Billy Wagner through free agency, the Rule 5 draft and trade, respectively, while the June amateur drafts under him produced Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, Pat Burrell, Cole Hamels, Ryan Madson and Brett Myers, all of whom were contributors on the 2008 World Series championship team.
While in Houston, Wade's deals helped the Phillies acquire Brad Lidge, Roy Oswalt and Hunter Pence from the Astros.
Many have suggested or joked that all those deals between the Phillies and the Astros were because of Wade's past or his hopes of a future with the Phillies.
“That certainly will be insinuated,” Wade said lightheartedly to the Houston Chronicle. “I’m prepared for the remarks that I only traded with the Phillies so Ruben would give me a job if I got fired.”
Wade said Amaro contacted him as soon as he was fired.
“Ruben contacted me as soon as I was let go and asked me if I would have some interest,” Wade said. “I said ‘let’s put this in neutral for a while’ but we talked a couple more times since then.”
Wade left the Phils to Gillick with the core players to win a WS and a deep and talented farm system; the Rube took over a WS-championship team with a great farm system from Gillick, struck out 3 times in hail mary attempts to win again while decimating the farm system, resulting in an overpaid team that is the oldest in baseball without all its best prospects and a less-promising future than the Nationals or Marlins .. yet dumb fans criticize Wade and applaud the Rube who can't even spend $170 million with half a brain
— warbiscuit- Anyone know why the comments section on Conlin's columns are closed? I'm able to comment on any other sports article...hmmm...— fizzbin
- Conlin applied for a job in the Phllies' farm system working with the youngest recruits.— orange rhino
- If the Rube in Dec. 09 wouldnt have signed Blanton to a $24 mil extension then found out that Blanton was deemed worthless by every other g.m and untradeable, so as to necessitate his discarding Cliff Lee for peanuts to Seattle in a panic move to cut budget when trading for Halladay, then he wouldnt have had to trade 3 prosepcts for Oswalt in mid-2010, and if in winter 2010 when everyone saw that Phils needed a right-handed of to replace Werth, had the Rube simply signed a righty outfielder free agent like any half intellgent g.m would have done, then he wouldn;t have had to trade 3 top propects in mid-2011 for Pence --so who's the 'dope' here --the Rube makes terrible errors of omission and commisson in the winter and then trades away his best prospects in mid-season to try to cover himself....now Phils only wish they could get Singleton and Villar and Gose and D'arnaud and Taylor and all the rest back as the current team is aging fast and the Phils farm system has lost a dozen of its recent best prospects and has noting to show for it but 3
October fizzles becase the rube doenst know how to build a well-balanced team capable of winning in post-season— warbiscuit - Ed Wade helped destroy the Astros like Bill conlin destroyed the childhoods of some innocent children. Bill Conlin is not only fat but he is a rapist.— feudal_nobility09
Comment removed.- always thought there was something off about conlin with his self-righteous pontificating babble and weirdness (and he was more often than not simply wrong in whatever he opined about)-- hard to criticize g.m.s for plain stupidity when some of the opinion makers in the media may be plain evil— warbiscuit
- Where can we send him next? Who has a good, young 3B with a little pop?— Curse of Billy Penn
- Nothing about Conlin? Interesting. Where is Bob Ford? Shouldn't he be advocating for the demise of philly.com and the DN?— Penfold18
- with dogbiscuitthedope hanging on my every word and changing his name to be able to "boo" me, and his 6 brilliant responses to my every word (with such insights like "moron", "loser" but apparently running out of perjoratives), I feel like Reggie Miller against the Knicks at Madison Square Garden :).... my advice though --get a life— warbiscuit
