What the no Waiver after deadline?

Question

What does it mean when people say you can't make trades with waivers after the deadline? So you can still trade but whats a waiver? Can you give me an example of a trade that happpen after the deadline?

Thank you

Answer 1

Any player under contract may be placed on waivers at any time. If a player is waived, any team may claim him. If more than one team claims the player from waivers, the team with the weakest record in the player's league gets preference. If no team in the player's league claims him, the claiming team with the weakest record in the other league gets preference. In the first month of the season, preference is determined using the previous year's standings.

Answer 2

A player needs to clear waivers to be free to be traded to any team in August. This means he cannot be claimed by any other team. If a team claims a player, the player's team can either keep him, give him away to the claiming team, or work out a trade with the claiming team. If multiple teams claim him, the team in the same league has priority. If they are in the same league, then the team with a worse record has priority.

Let's say for example the Marlins want to trade with the A's.

Situation #1: The A's put Frank Thomas on waivers. The Marlins claim him, but then the Mets claim him because they don't want their division rival Marlins to get him. The Mets and Marlins are both in the same league (National), so it goes by record. The Mets get priority because they have a worse record than the Marlins. The Mets will not trade anyone for Frank Thomas. The A's choose to give Frank Thomas and his salary to the Mets so that they don't have to pay him anyomore.

Situation #2: The A's put Emil Brown on waivers. This time, the Blue Jays and Marlins claim him. The Blue Jays are in the same league as the A's (American), so they get priority. The A's decide that they can only trade with the Marlins and not the Blue Jays. They decide Emil Brown is too valuable to just give him away, so they pull him off waivers and keep him.

Situation #3: The A's put Mark Ellis on waivers. No team claims him. Since he cleared waivers, he can be traded. The Marlins and A's work out a trade for him.

Answer 3

basically, the idea is that if you want to make a trade after the non-waiver deadline(which was july 31), then every player involved in the trade must go on waivers first...with waivers, every team in the majors will get a chance to claim this player, with the team with the worst record going first, and working its way up to the best team...if nobody claims the player, then he is eligible to be traded