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Douglas Rau
So everyone is either A) too expensive and bad for anyone to want or B) too valuable to his current club to be traded.
TommyC
August just started. The list will get much larger.
RBIBaseball
I’m surprised that no one claimed Gardner. It doesn’t hurt, it’s not like the yankees were going to give him away.
John Cate
There was no point in doing that. The Yankees aren’t going to trade him, and if you go claiming people just for the heck of it, the team you do that to is going to pay you back in kind at some point.
PhillyYank
Why would the Yankees place Gardner on revocable waivers at all if they have no plans to deal him? Is Cashman really that bored? Gardner has been one of their best players — he is having a career year.
RBIBaseball
Sometimes GMs put guys on waivers just to gauge interest. Yanks did that with Cano a few years back. He was claimed and was pulled back immediately.
Zack Sheffield
If I’m not mistaken, the fact that he has now cleared waivers means that he can be freely traded with any team until the waiver-trade deadline. Not that they’re remotely likely to move him (that is to say, nobody is remotely likely to offer the kind of return it would take to move him), but it’s not uncommon for teams to post just about everybody to revocable waivers because anybody who makes it through can then be part of open-ended discussions during the month of August.
Mark 22
So they can move him if they were overwhelmed with like Tulo…Yankee fans can dream 😛
CleaverGreene
Exactly, Gardner is really the same player as Jacoby, but cheaper and worth something in a trade.
James 55
Gardner is also 30 on a team that is held together with bubble gum.
Weighed
Would be awesome for Seattle to land Matt Kemp.
Wouldn’t hurt to see what L.A.D really wanted for him and how much salary they would dump, if any.
If Kemp was a FA this year and he wanted 5 years $107… I think they should have. (not my money!)
northsfbay
The Mariners didn’t claim Kemp.
Eric Christensen 2
Right, but now they can trade for him. That’s the point of clearing waivers in August. If they would have claimed him, the Dodgers could have just said have him and his $107 million salary.
BlueSkyLA
The biggest reality-based problem with that is Kemp’s batting line over the last month: .329/.420/.586/1.005
Nobody trades that kind of performance unless they are not in contention and not especially at the fire sale prices that are being suggested.
Brabender
Kemp is way overpaid and not worth the problems. I’d have to question his heart. Probably not a good fit for a young team.
KCMOWHOA
So the Yankees are basically renting some guys and already gauging interest in the event they don’t grab a wild card. Class organization over there.
Patrick the Pragmatist
The Yankees farm system is so bad that the waiver deal fringe prospect(s) they might get for Drew could be an upgrade. Maybe they hope to get an offer better than the guy they gave up (Peter O’Brien) from a desperate team for Prado.
James 55
It could also be to open up options. Today they will pass through, but if a contending team all of the sudden has their 2b/SS get hurt, they have more value. They are also easier to trade once they are through.
If Jed Lowrie got hurt tommorrow, who would replace him? If JJ Hardy got hurt, who would replace him? I know this is speculation, but this makes Prado and Drew valuable again in another trade if they all the sudden get in demand again.
Garyth
Any news on Phillies revocable waivers?
Dale
So why wouldn’t you just put all of your players on waivers, and just pull back everyone who gets claimed?
DodgerBlue83
Some teams actually do that. Others don’t do it because they either feel there is no point, or don’t want to offend their players.
NRD1138 2
I hear that, but maybe some teams should do it to wake up their players. I get you do not want to offend, but some teams have a lot of dead weight clogging up their systems that needs to go (in which case upsetting them is the least of your worries). and maybe such a move would wake up some players too.
Huck 3
As far as offending players goes, if you put you ENTIRE team through the waiver wire, no one in particular can (or maybe I should say “should”) get offended. And why not do that? You pull back anyone you don’t really want to trade (or just release) if you don’t get a good enough offer.
James 55
Most players understand this is a business. It also does not mean they are a bad player, it means they are overpaid. The reason the stros did not put anyone on waivers- suprise non of their players are overpaid.
NRD1138 2
Is Rick Hahn apparently as ‘asleep at the wheel’ as his manager, or are we just not hearing that De Aza, Dunn, Danks, Beckham, and Noesi are on revocable or even irrevocable Waivers? If they are not, then it boggles my mind.
If it was up to me, most of the White Sox would be on at least revocable waivers at this point (With the exception of Sale, Quintana, Abreu, Eaton, and maybe Ramirez and Gillespie) to see if you can dump some ‘holes’ off of this lineup, for whatever in return (I doubt their ‘value’ is going to go up in the offseason). This team has reverted back to their ‘bad Sox’ routine again, so I doubt you are going to see a miraculous finish here. Time to cut the dead weight and bring up kids and if they do not pan out at least you know what you have to work with next season and what you need to get in the off season.
sherrilltradedooverexperience
the dodgers have to make the hard decisions to make sure they get rid of at least 1 or 2 of’ers because how important the roster spot(s) will be for an extra arm with their struggling pen. Can be the difference between Alex Guerrero being stuck in AAA or as an extra bat-defensive replacement for the dodgers in the playoffs
mrnatewalter
Wait… am I reading this right? A Dodger post about trading Kemp and opening a roster spot for someone not named Joc Pederson??? I’m pleasantly surprised.
James 55
sounds like somone can do math… there are 5 OF with the dodgers in front of Joc (Puig, Kemp, Crawford, Ethier, and Van Slyke), most teams only carry 4. So trading 1 does not create a permanent place for Joc.
mrnatewalter
I like having two OF options… one right-handed batter, one left-handed batter… If I were a manager, I’d want that to be the case.
But I also don’t see the need to sell better talent for an unproven commodity who will occupy the same spot. St. Louis waited to see what they could get out of Oscar Taveras before they traded away Allen Craig. I think LA would be wise to do the same with Pedey.
James 55
I agree, but you need to give the kid come chances first.
mrnatewalter
Yes, you do… but selling all your insurance (known commodities to give guys like Pederson a chance is not wise.
StevetheBaker
I take it this list is not comprehensive but only of those players whose status is known and that are high profile. Is that correct?
JTGleason
That is how I understand it. Players put on waivers are done privately among team front offices, unless the team wants it leaked. It keeps players, and the press in the dark, so to not affect the ongoing season with speculation, but then again, a reporters’ worth is how much private info he can cajole from team sources.
Those names above are from reports, most likely true, but then again may also be considered as unconfirmed. Sometimes a player is reported to be on waivers, but is later learned to never have been. Humble pie on top of a pink slip cover is then served cold.
Gilded Splinter
Yankees with Drew at short and Prado at 2nd for 2015. Looks good. It’s always great to drop a -7 UZR/-12.9 UZR 50 shortstop. HOF or no HOF – those numbers just don’t cut it.