the 'stros are, record-wise, the worst of the contenders (discounting FLA and MIL, although MIL claiming him would be a really shrewd move...), so it is possible they're the team that was awarded his rights, or whatever. my guess is that bidding would start (from the ATL perspective) with hirsh. i'd counter with pence and burke plus a lower-level arm of some repute.
whoah, let's not give away the farm. next thing you know, you're throwing in rafael landestoy and kissing the next decade good-bye ($5 says this turns into an obscure astro reference thread). but seriously, i think its possible the astros claimed him - don't you?
I think it's probable that we put a in a claim on him. I think its improbable that we are the team that was awarded the claim. and from reading the linked article it gets me to wonder, who didn't we offer Oswalt up for?
i think milwaukee's the darkhorse; getting andruw is almost like extending carlos less one more year. in fact, the more i think about it, the more it makes sense, assuming they'd swallow his salary. if not MIL, the astros are a sound bet. question: if we DID make the claim, then do our players have to go thru waivers? and does that rule extend to 40-man only? if so, then my guess is the braves are content and willing to take prospects... sweet.
So how exactly is waiver priority assigned in MLB if multiple teams make a claim on the same player??
if we dealt someone on the 40-man roster, yes. unless that player's already passed thru waivers. what a potential maze. deuce rings, it goes by league; NL teams are given priority; fromthere, it's the team with the wrost record. if they have the same record, it goes to record at the end of last year.
no. or, at least, i don't think so. i have no idea.... i do know mclane ordered purpura to block the andruw jones trade.
I would imagine the Braves could claim them to do the deal. So it would have to be a team worse than the Braves. Alternatively, the Cardinals (for example) could offer the Cubs a player for a PTBNL and ask that they claim everyone from the Astros just for the hell of it to kill any deals. I don't know if there's a ethics thing that prevents that or not. Steve Phillips was on ESPN a few days saying he once claimed 250 people off the waivers just to prevent anyone from doing deals.
The fact that Steve Phillips was controlling a team that needed to claim 250 people to keep them off of numerous teams ahead of them in the standings should tell you something.
