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Waiver-wire trade

San Diego's 1998 acquisition of Myers does seem quite notable as a historic waiver-wire blunder resulting from a team trying to keep a player away from a rival. This is confusing, however, because it was a trade, not a case of a player being straight-out stuck on a team which claimed him, as for example happened with Jose Canseco in 2000. This New York Post article states that the Toronto GM told the San Diego GM Myers was his, and accepted a "non-prospect" to make it seem like a trade and save face. I can't find another source which quite puts it that way, and the New York Post might not be reliable, though there are other sources which paint this generally as a monumental waiver-wire blunder motivated by San Diego's desire to keep Myers away from Atlanta. But from everything I can find, it's not as though a player would go back on waivers if a team which claimed him then declined to make a trade; at that point he'd have to either be pulled off waivers or outright laid on the team which claimed him. So one has to wonder why the San Diego GM agreed to this trade, if he didn't actually want Myers. Maybe the implication is that Toronto would have straight-out stuck San Diego with Myers, but both teams thought a trade would look better. Can anyone find anything which clarifies this? 183.89.250.246 (talk) 15:31, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Here's another source, from just a few days after the trade happened, which says "Instead of letting Myers go on a waiver claim, the two GMs worked out a trade in which Myers went to San Diego for two minor-league nobodies, so everyone could save face and make it look like a thoughtful deal had been done." Though this appears to just be the writer's inference. The thing is, this was definitely a trade, so we should say that. We have two sources which state it was done to "save face", the implication being that a trade would look better than Toronto giving up Myers just to get rid of the contract they had recently signed him to, which seems to be the actual reason. This could also be mentioned at Kevin Towers, the San Diego GM who claimed Myers. I've seen it claimed that he nearly lost his job because of that. 183.89.250.246 (talk) 01:05, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]