I don't think Feaster was a great GM, he wasn't even a good GM but he certainly wasn't the worst we've had. He inherited a fairly disfunctional team full of aging vets on bad contracts (with lots of trade clauses) and a pretty mediocre prospect pool. He cleared out the bad contracts and over the hill players, made some good signings (Hudler, Wideman before he sucked) and loaded up the prospect pipeline. If he hadn't done that groundwork then Treliving wouldn't have been able to do the work he's done, Treliving inherited a pretty clean slate. Feaster made a few mistakes along the way and 2 big near misses but he left the team in much better shape then he found it so I just think he deserves a bit of credit, or at least a little less abuse.
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