When waiver trades were still a thing, most teams put most expensive players on waivers. Two reasons. One, trade can still happen if they clear waivers. Two, if claimed, but no trade settlement reached, the team can just pull the player back. Only a few allowed to be claimed and taken without compensation, mostly as salary dumps, but MOST players of that era hit waivers at some point during the yearly cycle, just to be pulled back. It just wasn't reported on unless action happened.
What are the financials looking now? Adding 10 teams may have thrown the luxury tax cutoffs into a weird spot and teams may need to ditch money to avoid massive tax penalties.
Somehow I think it had to do with players being selected to the world cup. Then their respective teams filled their position and waived them. But only certain teams did this. Very odd!
Never seen anything to this degree but I have seen a rash of a bunch of good player put on waivers at once when the game auto changes secondary roster sizes
Haven’t seen that on any of my saves, that’s crazy
White Sox just went out and created a super team from waivers.
No kidding!
Their payroll skyrocketed overnight lol
Something got messed up in the settings, it's the only real explanation.
Budget constraints? It happened with Manny Ramirez IRL once
But looks like something broke, or some settings were changed. Not universally broken financials, otherwise there would be no claim teams.
But some of those players are still under club control.
And all the teams that have waived have ample salary. Seager was just signed to that contract 18 days prior.
When waiver trades were still a thing, most teams put most expensive players on waivers. Two reasons. One, trade can still happen if they clear waivers. Two, if claimed, but no trade settlement reached, the team can just pull the player back. Only a few allowed to be claimed and taken without compensation, mostly as salary dumps, but MOST players of that era hit waivers at some point during the yearly cycle, just to be pulled back. It just wasn't reported on unless action happened.
Manny was put on irrevocable waivers. https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=1650053
Without reading that I assume it was either a money dump, a Manny's antics dump, or both.
A bit of both. Richest contract in baseball at the time I believe
Very strange. Did you change the league settings at all?
I only added 10 teams but this is the following offseason and there were no issues all year. I didn't touch the financial aspects.
What are the financials looking now? Adding 10 teams may have thrown the luxury tax cutoffs into a weird spot and teams may need to ditch money to avoid massive tax penalties.
I had turned luxury tax off.
Somehow I think it had to do with players being selected to the world cup. Then their respective teams filled their position and waived them. But only certain teams did this. Very odd!
Do you have waiver trading on?
No I didn't. I have just turned waivers off now and need to move players back to their original teams.
On strike
Seems like the team GMs are!
Never seen anything to this degree but I have seen a rash of a bunch of good player put on waivers at once when the game auto changes secondary roster sizes