Concrete Waiver Trade Rules

[mattynokes]

There's trade rules and there's waiver rules, but there's nothing specific to address post-deadline waiver trades. It seems the policies are assumed. We need definite rules to plan for depth charts and if the trades can actually happen. The easiest and best way would be to incorporate the real life rules.

1. Only players will any MLB experience need to pass through waivers. "MLB experience" is defined as logging any MLB stats in any season of the player's career.

2. If a REV player isn't claimed within 24 hours he can be traded freely to any team throughout the month of August.

3. If a REV player is claimed by only ONE team within 24 hours, the player can only be traded to that claiming team.

4. If a REV player is claimed by MULTIPLE teams, the club with the worst record in that player's league gets priority -- and the player can be traded only to that team.

5. If a REV player is claimed the waiving team has an additional X (6? 12?) hours to decide the player's fate.

6. If a player is waived within 24 hours of the next sim, then the player will not be processed until the following sim.

If claimed under the basis of #3 or #4 then the waiving team would have the following three options:

1. Pull the player back and keep him.
2. Workout a deal with the team that has claiming priority.
3. Do nothing and allow the claiming team to take the player for free.
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For reference the rules were taken form here: http://www.purplerow.com/2009/2/19/76253...-part-thre

The reasoning for #1 is that the real rule is players on the 40 man roster must pass waivers and there is no 40 man roster on Mogul. I feel it's plausible to make anyone who has played in the majors have to pass through waivers.