What's your opinion of Ed Wade?

by oiler-texan diehard on Jul 31, 2011 12:43 PM EDT

Astros' fan here, so forgive me if that is a rhetorical question. As you know your former GM is now our GM, and he isn't exactly wowing us with his ingenious personnel decisions. He has improved our farm system, but only moderately, which isn't saying much because it was the worst in baseball when he took over a few years back. As far as the big league club, he is in an impossible situation, but he made the situation worse by overpaying for a series of has-beens and never were's (Kaz Matsui, Mike Hampton, Pedro Feliz, Ivan Rodriguez and Nelson Figuero to name a few). I see here that Phillies' fans aren't thrilled with the Hunter Pence trade. As it turns out, Astros' fans aren't either. Funny because a well crafted trade between a have and have-not team should be a win-win, not a lose-lose. Please leave your comments, and good luck to the Phillies in the post season. Off topic, but congrats on the NFL free agent wizardry. The Eagles are an embarrassment of riches right now. The Texans sure could have used Cullen Jenkins. Maybe we can trade for Asante Samuel. See you in the Super Bowl.

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What is your general opinion of Ed Wade?

He is a good guy & I would welcome him back, but not as a GM

20 votes

He is a great executive and I would like to see him return as our GM

1 votes

No way would I ever want to see him work in the Philly organization

12 votes

I wish he never was our GM

5 votes

I wish he was never born

4 votes

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Sorry about the single paragraph format, I didn't intend for it to be like that. Need some practice

It took the Astros 44 years to get to the Series, the Oilers-Texans are OVERDUE to get to the playoffs, much less the big big dance...Go Texans!!!!!

by oiler-texan diehard on Jul 31, 2011 12:47 PM EDT reply actions

He’s okay but not great. I think you should be happier with the Pence trade. Singleton and Cosart are good prospects.

by taco pal on Jul 31, 2011 1:33 PM EDT reply actions

Hope you're right

Wade has traded our 3 most marketable position players (Keppinger, Pence & Bourne) in the last 10 days and hasn’t received one ML ready prospect in return. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it is disappointing in the short term. He just traded Bourne to ATL for 4 prospects this AM, and he did not receive any of their top 4 pitching prospects in return. The Braves made it known they wanted Bourne weeks ago, and Wade was not able to parlay that leverage into a good trade for the Astros. I don’t think he’s the right guy for the job of ML GM.

It took the Astros 44 years to get to the Series, the Oilers-Texans are OVERDUE to get to the playoffs, much less the big big dance...Go Texans!!!!!

by oiler-texan diehard on Jul 31, 2011 1:59 PM EDT up reply actions

For the record, I think Singleton has superstar potential, but, at the least, I expect he’ll be a solid Major Leaguer. Cosart’s a crap shoot, but his ceiling is as high as any pitcher in the minors right now. I personally think Wade made out pretty well in the Pence trade. He’s good at building a minor league organization, so I think you’ll appreciate him more in a few years. In many ways he reminds me of Drayton Moore. Good at the Prospects, not great at handling the affairs of the Bg Club.

by Cormican on Jul 31, 2011 5:30 PM EDT up reply actions

He’s also excellent at locking up existing major league players. While the work he did with player development was crucial for the Phillies’ recent success, perhaps even more crucial were the contracts he got Rollins and Utley to sign. The Burrell and Abreu deals were his worst extensions, and neither one of them was that bad.

Not so good at free agent deals, especially with relief pitchers.

by taco pal on Jul 31, 2011 5:47 PM EDT up reply actions

I think wade underestimated frank wren this weekend. Based on what was bandied about what the barves offered for pence, I have a feeling wade went with us cause he expected to still be able to get minor for Bourn. That didn’t happen.

25.8/106 CURRENTLY HOT!!!

by Joecatz on Jul 31, 2011 8:49 PM EDT reply actions