Sox unsuccessful in landing Ibanez
The Red Sox were one of a few teams, according to a major league source, who put in a trade waiver claim on Seattle outfielder Raul Ibanez, but the Sox were not awarded the claim as an undisclosed team with a worse record than the Red Sox had a 48-hour window to work out a deal with the Mariners.
The Seattle Times reported that the Tigers and Twins also put in a claim on Ibanez. The Twins were also trying to land Jarrod Washburn so they could move one of their starters to the bullpen. The paper reported that both players - Washburn and Ibanez - were likely staying put in Seattle.
The Sox have been very active on the waiver wire, putting in a claim on Brian Giles, but then unable to work out a deal with San Diego when Giles invoked his no-trade to Boston. However, the Sox were able to block him getting to Tampa Bay, which also had interest in Ibanez. Their claim might have been geared toward blocking the Rays. The Sox also put in a claim and received Paul Byrd after making a deal with Cleveland for a player-to-be-named later and/or cash considerations.
Can someone please explain how the waiver wire works, I get some of it , but there is something I'm missing, Thanks, Pete G
As I understand it, if a player is placed on waivers each team in that league has the option of making a claim on the waived player. If the player is claimed by more than one team, the claiming team with the worst record has 48 hours to complete a trade with the current team. If no trade is completed, the player cannot be traded from his current team for the rest of the season. If a player passes through waivers in his original league, then the process is repeated for the other league (American/National). If players go unclaimed, then I believe the original team is free to make whatever trade they can for the remainder of the waiver period.
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Sure. There's two kinds of waivers. During the early part of the season, you have the ones to send someone down, in which he's gone for nothing. Now, here's the deal: Any team can put any player on waivers. Any team can then "claim" the player. First it goes through your league, from worst to best record. Whoever claims him with the worst record gets 48 hours to work out a deal. In many cases (such as with Byrd) the other team basically says "take him"... they're out of it and it's a salary dump. And sometimes you try to put a claim in to prevent another (better) team from having a chance to get the piece the need. That's what happened with Giles - the Sox blocked the Rays. However, the danger of this is sometimes you can get screwed if you win because the other team didn't claim a guy and the waiving team says "take him". I think years ago someone got stuck with a grossly overpriced Randy Myers because of this.
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