Players like Beckett are placed on waivers to populate the wire, helping mask any real deals that may be in the works, and to keep players a team would like see claimed from becoming alarmed when they hear they were waived.
Zobrist has come back to earth since the all star break, with only 4 RBIs.
He's hitting .077 in August.
There's a reason he's only been a part time utlity player his whole career.
Nobody in their right mind would want to face Longoria instead of Zobrist.
Longoria
vs. Red Sox: 17/46 .370 7HR 24RBI
vs. everyone else: 87/333 .261 16HR 57RBI
30% of his HRs and RBIs have come against the Red Sox in only 12% of his at-bats.