Players still being Acquired?? Am Clueless?

That was the non-waiver deadline. This one was where they had to pass/clear waivers. It's like a bidding process, a certain number of teams put in for a certain player and the team with the worst record has the chance of acquiring said player unless a deal can't be worked out or the current team the player is on pulls him back off waivers.

That would mean that nobody else put in for Thome, so the Dodgers got him.

Key here is to remember 1 Sep. A player must be on the roster by midnight (PST) 1 Sep to be eligible for post season play. Up to midnight 31 July....any team can trade with any other team w/o having a player pass thru waivers. In other words, open season for trading until 31 July. After 31 July, trading may occur only IF a player clears waivers. Which means every team in MLB has had an opportunity on putting a claim on that player. IF a team(s) claims the waiver, the team with that player's rights has 48 hours to: (1) retract that waiver and keep the player. (2) Let that player go to the team that put a claim

If the team that has the rights retracts the waiver. They can make a deal with the team that had put in a claim.

IF every team passes on that player, the team can either retract the waiver or outright release the player to Free Agency.

That was the wavier deadline. Now they can still get players, but they have to get them ( baseball players )through waiver's.

That was the non-waiver deadline.

u can get players threw waivers