How Waiver Deals Work

[elsrbueno]

I found an article from ESPN explaining how waiver deals work.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/stor...yson&id=1860265

 

In case anyone cares.

[RedSoxRooter]

I read that the other day and it confused me even more.

[YanksHater213]

nice find, that was really helpful

[schillingouttheks]

that was really helpful...i dont understand how it could confuse you more RSR, if anything it makes it a damn lot more clearer...but its different for everyone i guess..

[empirestrikesback26]

I don't even trying to understand waivers. The best the yanks ever got was jose conseco!lol

[schillingouttheks]

yeah...georgy porgy should use his brain more...even though he does when grabbing the best out there.. <_>

[empirestrikesback26]

Well the yanks werent able to get RJ, a rare exception. According to that gener manager, it didnt matter if we had babe ruth, ted williams and hank aaron in our farm system, he wasnt going to trade RJ to the yanks.

[NomarMannyOrtizzle]

If you had anyone worth looking at in your farm system, then you would have gottten RJ

[schillingouttheks]

i heard something also about u needing to give up posada. plus he was smart by not giving RJ to you...then you would be unbeatable to anyone, and the d-backs manager may have saved baseball.

[empirestrikesback26]

If you had anyone worth looking at in your farm system, then you would have gottten RJ

that wasnt the point, the point was that general manager hated the yankees for some reason and just didnt want to trade RJ to them. I'm glad we didnt trade posada, I would rather keep posada then have RJ with no posada. What was RJ going to do, help the yanks 1 year and then retire? I would rather have a guy who helps the yanks for another 5 or 6 years.

[CrespoBlows]

Originally posted by empirestrikesback26@Aug 18 2004, 06:28 PM

that wasnt the point, the point was that general manager hated the yankees for some reason and just didnt want to trade RJ to them. I'm glad we didnt trade posada, I would rather keep posada then have RJ with no posada. What was RJ going to do, help the yanks 1 year and then retire? I would rather have a guy who helps the yanks for another 5 or 6 years.

He would of traded RJ to the Yankees, the thing is there isn't any prospects in the system, and with the draft the Yankees just had, their won't be in a while. My friend who's a Yankee fan told me that the Red Sox had a bad draft because they didn't have a first round pick. I didn't dignify it with a response.

[empirestrikesback26]

I think he was determined not to trade him to the yanks, but maybe he would have if the yanks had a prospect that colud really help his team.