Note: The Waiver Wire
Update, 1:25 pm:
In a report for SI.com, Jon Heyman lists 15 players likely to clear waivers, such as Adam Dunn and Bronson Arroyo; nine players who could clear, like Alex Rios and Gil Meche; and 13 players who are unlikely to clear, like Adrian Gonzalez.
Heyman also recaps the Winners and Losers from this past week’s Trade Deadline, while discussing other items from around MLB.
Original Post:
Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle believes infielder Nomar Garciaparra, among other A’s, could draw interest through waivers.
…the way i understand it, teams can still make trades, but it must be done through waivers… basically, teams will put most all of their players on waivers at some point, even if they have no interest in trading him… once on waivers, another team has 48 hours to put in a claim… if nobody puts in a claim on a player, that player can be traded at will, just like before July 31… if, however, a player is claimed, his team can either pull him back off of waivers, work out a trade with the team who claimed him, or do nothing and let the claiming team receive the player for free… the free option could happen in the case of a huge contract… the thing is, once a player is pulled back from waivers, he is unable to be traded for 30 days… and so, this is how teams often step in and block a player from getting moved, but they also risk getting stuck with the player in the question…
…lastly, the team with the worst record in the same league gets first dibs… if there is no claim, the same rule applies to team’s in the other league…
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