Post by Mets/WhiteSoxGM on Sept 23, 2006 16:43:58 GMT -4
Each team will be allowed four waiver passes during the season. A waiver pass may be used on any player currently earning a salary on your major league roster. The waiver pass will allow you to move the player down to your minor league roster. The player's salary will remain on the salary cap, but the player's years will not count again the cap of 100 years.
If your minor league roster is full prior to this transaction, a concurrent move must be made to remain at the maximum.
Note that players on your major league roster that began the season as minor leaguers, may be demoted without the use of a waiver pass.
A team cannot nullify the use of a waiver pass. Trading or waiving or recalling the player does not release a team from having used a waiver pass.
A waiver pass belongs to the team that uses it, not the player being waiver passed. If a team obtains a player in a trade that has been waiver passed to the other teams' minors, the receiving team would have to use its own waiver pass to demote the player to its minors roster, if that is the desire.
For instance, I have used a waiver pass on Urbina. Whether I waive him or trade him, I must still count the waiver pass I used on him. If I recall him to my majors roster and then wish to demote him again, I must use another waiver pass as the pass does not go with Urbina, the pass is an action by my team. And if I trade him, the other team would have him on its majors roster unless it waiver passed him. Just as a player could cost a team more than one waiver pass, he can also cost more than one team a waiver pass.
A player that is waiver passed during the season must be moved up at the end of the season and his contract and years will count against the team. If a team wants to use another waiver pass in the offseason, that will count against the next season's four waiver passes.
If your minor league roster is full prior to this transaction, a concurrent move must be made to remain at the maximum.
Note that players on your major league roster that began the season as minor leaguers, may be demoted without the use of a waiver pass.
A team cannot nullify the use of a waiver pass. Trading or waiving or recalling the player does not release a team from having used a waiver pass.
A waiver pass belongs to the team that uses it, not the player being waiver passed. If a team obtains a player in a trade that has been waiver passed to the other teams' minors, the receiving team would have to use its own waiver pass to demote the player to its minors roster, if that is the desire.
For instance, I have used a waiver pass on Urbina. Whether I waive him or trade him, I must still count the waiver pass I used on him. If I recall him to my majors roster and then wish to demote him again, I must use another waiver pass as the pass does not go with Urbina, the pass is an action by my team. And if I trade him, the other team would have him on its majors roster unless it waiver passed him. Just as a player could cost a team more than one waiver pass, he can also cost more than one team a waiver pass.
A player that is waiver passed during the season must be moved up at the end of the season and his contract and years will count against the team. If a team wants to use another waiver pass in the offseason, that will count against the next season's four waiver passes.