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Ryan
“Another GM admitted that he couldn’t give Olney a good reason why players must pass through waivers to be traded in August.”
How about because you missed your opportunity to trade the guy straight up when the trade deadline passed? It is there to make things a little more complicated, so teams can’t firesale at the end of a year and trade all their guys to another team to let them win it all. End of July to end of August, a lot can change in the standings. What an ass.
fishfan4life
A contending team should try and snatch up Counsell…versatile and has experience in the playoffs (2 rings).
johnsilver
Make a hard slotting system where low ball bonuses MUST be paid and see how many more athletes pass up baseball and go to other sports. The time of baseball being the #1 has already been long over with and slipped to #3 years ago. Go ahead and ruin it some more. Let cheap, chitzy teams get away with spending 5-6M, so 10 teams have -0- teams to exist can survive.
Chris
The waiver system was also put in place to keep the best team from using the worst team as a pseudo AAAA farm team. The way the yankees used the kansas city A’s. The waiver system means every team below the yanks would be able to block the “call up from the farm” in KC.