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Huntington: Bucs monitoring waiver market
- Updated: August 7, 2016
PITTSBURGH — The Pirates were one of the Majors’ most active clubs in the minutes before last Monday’s non-waiver Trade Deadline, and they could be involved in the August trade market as well.
“We’re certainly looking for ways to add to the club,” general manager Neal Huntington said on Sunday.
Clubs can still deal and acquire players who pass through waivers, as Pittsburgh showed in sending Arquimedes Caminero to Seattle for a player or players to be named on Saturday. Players acquired by Aug. 31 are eligible for postseason play.
It’s not as easy to make trades in August, of course. For the Pirates to inquire on an American League player who passed through waivers, he would have to go unclaimed by every AL team and any NL club with a worse record than Pittsburgh.
“It’s a rare player that does get through to us from the American League. The National League, if there is a benefit to being on the outside [of the postseason race] looking in, it’s that we have an earlier waiver claim situation,” Huntington said. “We hope to be able to utilize that, but I don’t want to …
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