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lol, Ed Wade was far from a horrible GM. The team actually got better under his watch. He also house cleaned the guys managing the Phillies farm system. Half the current team came through that farm system!! (ok not exactly half, nit). His trades and FA leave something to be desired. This hardly detracts from the most important point that the team got better while he was in charge.

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The Phillies may have gotten better under Ed Wade's watch but he was still terrible.

When he was let go, i remember that he had the longest tenure of a GM that hand't made the playoffs.

And one could argue that Gillick has spent 2 years trying to undo the crap that Ed Wade did while GM.

Look at the bad contracts with the no-trade clauses, look at the players that left while he was there, look at the small moves at trade deadlines to try and get his teams over the hump into a wildcard spot. And the farm system on one hand there have been a few excellent players, pitching is really weak and really not much in the way of trade bait.

Now granted the ownership is way way worse and with a bit bigger budget he may have been able to do some of the things criticized for.