As I've said before, while I think it's highly unlikely, I'd rather keep Billy Wagner then trade him, but if your going to trade him, this is exactly why you don't pitch him before he clears waivers.Of course, someone may have claimed Wags without seeing him pitch but at 2.7MM for the remainder of the season, that would have meant one of two things. The other team was simply blocking and you weren't going to work out a trade or a team was desperate for a closer and your in the cat bird seat. After seeing him pitch, now he's appealing to a team who'd like to have him but doesn't necessarily need him. Your options are limited to working with one team and that team doesn't have to have the player. Because your options are limited, now there isn't the demand to negate variables such as personalities, player demands and cost in players. Competition generally erases all of those concerns, when there's more then one team involved, there's usu...
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