Tuesday's Frosty Mug has gone fishin'.

Maybe he just knows who put a claim in once the waiver period is over. He was talking about JJ Hardy. He said that he hadn’t been claimed yet. He went on to say that he didn’t have a whole lot of interest in trading Hardy right now. I’m guessing he wants to wait til the offseason, when he has more than 72 hours to work out a deal.

according to inside the majors

This combined with the fact that if a player is claimed you have just two business days to complete a trade with the claiming Club meant we waited until we were ready to move him before putting him on TR.

it’s further described here , so they obviously had to know who the claiming club was. perhaps melvin meant that when another team claims a player waived by a third team (e.g., the brewers are not at all involved), he doesn’t get any information. that makes sense to me.

while the waiver period is open (2 business days, isn’t it?) on a player, the waiving team simply gets notified as soon as the first claim is put in, so they can plan ahead in the knowledge that the player won’t make it through waivers, but won’t be notified exactly which team put in that claim – because otherwise, you’d logically have to be notified for all further claims by teams with higher waiver priority, too. And that could be used to gauge exactly how much interest there is in your players, which probably isn’t quite what the waiver wire is supposed to be for.

In other words, I wouldn’t be surprised if the waiving team really only finds out at the end of the period who has actually been awarded the claim, and then gets that 48 hour period to make the pull-back/trade/let-him-leave decision.

You’re teasing us, yes?

Wow they are sure loading up their salary.

as they’re waiting for him to put together another hot streak. I get the feeling that he’s going to wait til the offseason and trade him

Really sad that he is out up to 18 months with TJ surgery.

Have always pulled for him since he is a Wisconsin guy.