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In response to "I knew they'd done that but I forgot that waiver trades aren't a thing. MLB needs to add rules against this before next season. -- nm" by David

Why? No, seriously. They just changed the rules in 2019 to prevent the whole you're waived but oh not really. We wanted to check your trade value -- nm

Posted by JD (aka Jason Dean) Aug 31 '23, 10:40

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It's a competitive balance thing, which I've always cared about more than MLB does. -- nm - David Aug 31, 10:41 6
- The reverse standing priority would seem to address competition and it's not even like fantasy where a team uses it priority on one player - JD Aug 31, 10:46 5
  - That's really dumb. We had that one year in BF where it accidentally worked like that and it was chaos. -- nm - spamlet Aug 31, 10:52
  - That's why it especially matters now. Worse wild card contenders get a gift. -- nm - David Aug 31, 10:47 3
    - I thought that the whole point of adding even wilder, wild cards was to add to the chaos of the end of the season - JD Aug 31, 10:52 2
      - nah just more money for another round of prime time games -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 31, 10:54 1
        
        8-) Actually that's super true -- nm - JD Aug 31, 10:55

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