Every year, usually in spring, fans get all excited about players their GM 'stole' from another team via a waiver claim. To those people I have always preached that these players are most likely not even worth discussing and if they end up getting regular playing time it is not by design and fans should temper their enthusiasm.
Well thanks to MLBtraderumors.com's transaction tracker we can now go back and look at the all the fabulous waiver claims made since 1990. So to save you the trouble I've gone ahead and did a search on all Blue Jays waiver claims and listed the results below. Now I'm not sure how complete this list is because I seem to remember other players such as Mike McCoy being acquired through a waiver claim, but I could be confusing it with a free agent signing.
Player Claimed | Team | General Manager | Date |
Efrain Valdez | TOR | Pat Gillick | 7/3/1991 |
Shawn Hillegas | TOR | Pat Gillick | 4/3/1992 |
Roberto Duran | TOR | Gord Ash | 3/14/1996 |
Ken Robinson | TOR | Gord Ash | 5/7/1996 |
Omar Daal | TOR | Gord Ash | 7/25/1997 |
Dane Johnson | TOR | Gord Ash | 10/29/1997 |
Ben VanRyn | TOR | Gord Ash | 5/29/1998 |
Jacob Brumfield | TOR | Gord Ash | 5/7/1999 |
TOR | Gord Ash | 5/28/1999 | |
TOR | Gord Ash | 8/6/1999 | |
TOR | J.P. Ricciardi | 5/3/2002 | |
TOR | J.P. Ricciardi | 8/30/2002 | |
TOR | J.P. Ricciardi | 3/28/2003 | |
TOR | J.P. Ricciardi | 4/30/2003 | |
Scott Service | TOR | J.P. Ricciardi | 6/16/2003 |
TOR | J.P. Ricciardi | 3/31/2004 | |
TOR | J.P. Ricciardi | 4/9/2004 | |
TOR | J.P. Ricciardi | 12/6/2004 | |
TOR | J.P. Ricciardi | 1/19/2007 | |
TOR | J.P. Ricciardi | 8/3/2007 | |
TOR | J.P. Ricciardi | 9/15/2007 | |
TOR | J.P. Ricciardi | 10/26/2007 | |
TOR | J.P. Ricciardi | 10/26/2007 | |
TOR | J.P. Ricciardi | 3/17/2008 | |
TOR | J.P. Ricciardi | 10/6/2008 | |
TOR | J.P. Ricciardi | 10/24/2008 | |
TOR | J.P. Ricciardi | 11/3/2008 | |
TOR | J.P. Ricciardi | 11/3/2008 | |
TOR | J.P. Ricciardi | 11/4/2008 | |
TOR | J.P. Ricciardi | 2/4/2009 | |
TOR | J.P. Ricciardi | 2/5/2009 | |
TOR | Alex Anthopoulos | 10/29/2009 | |
TOR | Alex Anthopoulos | 11/3/2009 | |
TOR | Alex Anthopoulos | 1/7/2010 | |
TOR | Alex Anthopoulos | 3/4/2010 | |
TOR | Alex Anthopoulos | 4/14/2010 | |
TOR | Alex Anthopoulos | 9/9/2010 |
Best headline that never happened: Jays claim former Giant Bocock off waivers.
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