Here are three things for MLBTR readers to keep an eye on throughout the day:<\/p>\n
1. Waiver activity incoming:<\/p>\n
It\u2019s become common in recent years for teams that have fallen out of the playoff race to place veteran players (especially impending free agents) on outright waivers late in the year, offering them up to possible contenders who would like to claim them. That process is typically done before September 1 to allow players claimed off waivers to participate in the postseason with their new club. With the start of September just a few days away, activity has already started to pick up. The Pirates designated<\/a> veteran lefty Andrew Heaney<\/a> for assignment yesterday, and Guardians first baseman Carlos Santana<\/a> is on outright waivers<\/a> at the moment. There\u2019s a number of other players who could feasibly be offered up on waivers as soon as today if their club decides they\u2019re too far out of the race and\/or if they simply want to shed some payroll with an eye toward the offseason. MLBTR\u2019s Anthony Franco took a look<\/a> at a handful of players who could fit this bill last week in a piece for Trade Rumors Front Office subscribers.<\/p>\n 2. Can Quinn Priester and the Brewers extend their streak?<\/p>\n Milwaukee\u2019s April acquisition<\/a> of right-hander Quinn Priester<\/a> from the Red Sox has been pivotal to their 2025 success. The right-hander\u2019s 3.44 ERA and 4.37 FIP are both solid enough figures, but what really jumps off the page is the team\u2019s success when he takes the ball. The Brewers haven\u2019t lost a game where Priester took the mound since May 24. Since then, the twice-traded former top prospect has gone 10-0 in 15 starts. All five of his no-decisions in that span have ended in victory for the team. It\u2019s a remarkable three-month stretch, even though his 3.01 ERA and 4.20 FIP don\u2019t suggest quite that level of dominance. Today, the Brewers will go for a 16th consecutive win with Priester on the mound against Ryne Nelson<\/a> (3.63 ERA) and the Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n 3. Ben Cherington joins the MLBTR Podcast:<\/p>\n The latest episode of the MLBTR Podcast is available today, and it features Pirates GM Ben Cherington as a special guest. In the episode, MLBTR\u2019s Darragh McDonald chats with Cherington about some of the challenges of being a small-market GM, the team\u2019s conversations over Paul Skenes<\/a> with the first pick of the 2023 draft, and the fact that Pittsburgh has not signed any free agents to multi-year deals during Cherington\u2019s time at the helm. Today\u2019s podcast is available on Spotify<\/a> and Apple Podcasts<\/a>, and it will also be published here on MLBTR later this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are three things for MLBTR readers to keep an eye on throughout the day: 1. Waiver activity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-101131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}