Tomorrow will be an active day on the transaction front. It’s the last day in which teams can add players from outside the organization and still have them eligible for postseason play. Not coincidentally, non-contending clubs placed a number of impending free agents on waivers yesterday. The two-day waiver window for all those players will be resolved tomorrow at 12:00 pm CDT (though it’s possible the claim results won’t be officially announced until later in the day).
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Before getting to the waiver order, a refresh on the priority rules. Claim priority is the inverse order of win percentage as of Thursday morning. Waivers are not league specific, although teams in the same league as the club that put a player on waivers have priority over a claiming team in the opposite league among clubs with the same win percentage. To break ties between teams with identical records and in the same league, the club with the worse record in previous seasons has priority. (A team moves to the back of the line if they’re attempting to claim a player for the second time in a given season, though that won’t be a factor for any of the players known to be on waivers at the moment.)
Tomorrow’s waiver priority:
Oakland Athletics, .291
Kansas City Royals, .304
Colorado Rockies, .368
Chicago White Sox, .396
St. Louis Cardinals, .433
Detroit Tigers, .444
Pittsburgh Pirates, .455
New York Mets, .455
Washington Nationals, .463
San Diego Padres, .463
Los Angeles Angels, .478
Cleveland Guardians, .478
New York Yankees, .489
Miami Marlins, .496
Cincinnati Reds, .511
Minnesota Twins, .515*
Boston Red Sox, .515
Arizona Diamondbacks, .515
San Francisco Giants, .519
Chicago Cubs, .534
Toronto Blue Jays, .545
Milwaukee Brewers, .556
Philadelphia Phillies, .556
Texas Rangers, .564
Houston Astros, .570
Seattle Mariners, .571
Tampa Bay Rays, .612
Baltimore Orioles, .624
Los Angeles Dodgers, .629
Atlanta Braves, .659
* Note: Minnesota and Boston would have priority over Arizona for players waived by AL teams; Arizona would have priority for players waived by NL teams
Pittsburgh has priority over Mets based on 2022 record
Washington has priority over San Diego based on 2022 record
Angels have priority over Cleveland based on 2022 record
Minnesota has priority over Boston based on 2021 record, as teams had identical records in ’22
Milwaukee has priority over Philadelphia based on 2022 record