Atlanta Braves Might Be Involved, So Here is a Lesson in Waiver Trading

Trading Season is Over! No, Not Really.  Here’s everything you need to know about trading players in August via Waivers.

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.

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