WHY PENA WAS CLAIMED OFF WAIVERS...AND NOTHING HAPPENED

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So, I didn’t feel it necessary to bring you this piece of news because to me, it’s not really news. Carlos Pena was claimed off waivers by the Yankees from the Cubs yesterday but the Cubs have pulled him back. The End.

Look, there really isn’t much more to this story other than the Yankees were interested, the Cubs knew that and Carlos Pena was flattered, other than that, it’s over. Carlos said of the whole ordeal : “It was flattering to see the interest, but it’s even more flattering to see how the Cubs pulled back and retained me.” Fair enough, everyone like to be wanted.

Not many remember this but Carlos Pena was part of the Yankees organization for a short time in 2006. Read HERE. April 19^th to August 15th to be exact. He played 105 games for the AAA affiliate at the time, the Columbus Clippers.

The Yankees thinking was they could use Pena's bat for some DH help. Nice try by Cashman to do this. I was kind of hoping for alittle pitching at the waiver deadline, but what the hell do I know? Let’s not forget, Brian Cashman made a statement to the media earlier in the month stating that he doesn’t see any moves by the waivers deadline. Read about that HERE. Clearly he tried and I like that; He’s a snake, trying to better our team and never showing his hand.

The waivers game is fun. Claiming players off waivers is an interesting little part of the game, because many think that after the trade deadline you can't make moves, this actually allows you to, but it’s not like the team who puts the player on waivers HAS TO unload them at the point of another team claiming them. A negotiation needs to take place and maybe an exchange of players happens, maybe it doesn’t. They have until the end of the month to do this.

In Pena's case, once the Cubs put Pena on waivers, every single National League team had a shot and then every single American League team did as well. That basically means that the Yankees were like the second to last team to have a chance to claim him.

Bottom line, nothings happening with Carlos Pena, but it was exciting for 10 minutes.

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