Thursday, December 23, 2010

The Truth about Waiver Claims

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.

To say the least, this list of players isn't all that inspiring and either verifies my belief that we shouldn't pay much attention to waiver claim players, or that Toronto has had a horrendous record with waiver claims.  I'm thinking it is the former because when I did searches for other teams, their lists weren't all the better.


Player Claimed
Team
General Manager
Date
Efrain Valdez
TOR
Pat Gillick
7/3/1991
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

1 comment:

  1. Best headline that never happened: Jays claim former Giant Bocock off waivers.

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