Wade rejoins Phillies organization
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Wade rejoins Phillies organization
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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.”
"The Great Gazoo" has returned.— PhightinPhil- this is horrible news. the phillies will not make the playoffs now. ed wade is a jinx plain and simple. not good. looks like we are going to have to start a "fire ed wade" movement again.— slanted and enchanted
- OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!— drjimmy
- the astros got bourn for lidge so it wasn't exactly a "sweetheart" deal.— chadp1234
- so whats this abot Bill Colin being down ith the sandusky club?— rayne215
- Let's remember Wade was here when the Phillies were a "small market" team with an anemic budget. You'll notice Terry Francona got smarter when he landed in Boston.— Bruce in NM
- Can Brett be far behind ?— NewMick314
- As much as I don't agree with working for your prior subordinate, having Wade back to evaluate talent is a good move. He certainly was a part of the braintrust that produced quite a few gold nuggets for us on the current squad. And, let this be the proof of the pudding that the Phillies organizationb is one of, if not the most loyal there is in basbeall. The players know it, the coaches know it, the brass knows it. You come to work and do a good job, try hard and show the club some loyalty and they'll show it back to you in spades. Kinda like a lot of our industry used to be in this country.....also makes you wonder what LaMarr really did wrong to p*ss off Amaro so much that he was let go.......Conlin, get on it!— Mark1npt
- Wow, talk about an unfortunate choice of words...don't think you'd want him getting on anything at the moment. — fizzbin
- D A M N ! ! !....p-diddy beat me to the draw.— TBear
- "Ed Wade is about as good an evaluator of talent as Andy Reid" - Thome, Victorino, Wagner, Utley, Howard, Burrell, Hamels, Madson -
Okay, if you say so, genius. Whereas, the Land Whale thinks signing a couple "superstars" will make him coach of the dream team.
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— COskier - I was hoping he'd go somewhere else and hook us up.— burholme
- Further proof that Wade was a sleeper agent the whole time— mjb
- One of the strangest looking guys evaaaa.— JJReid
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