Braves Waiver Trading 101: All You Need to Know

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Trading Season is Over!  No, Not Really.

While July 31st marked the end of the unrestricted trading deadline for Major League baseball, there is still a window of opportunity for contenders to continue to beef up their rosters for the stretch run. There are some explanations of this around, but frankly, I didn’t like like how they were structured, so this version exists in the hopes of answering all of the inevitable questions. I do like, however, this definition of “waivers” from baseball-reference.com that I will start off with:

"Waivers are a [request for] permission granted by the other teams in Major League Baseball to allow a team to do a player move which would not normally be allowed by the rules. In other words, opposing teams waive their objection to the move."

A “Waiver Claim,“ therefore, is a team’s statement of objection to a request to waive the player-movement rules. Such a claim has numerous implications, and that’s the subject of this post.  I hope you’ll find that it explains everything.

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