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Originally Posted by troymcclure
It's fairly simple. Here's an example: Joe Shortstop has a major league contract (usually for the minimum) and is on the 40-man roster but he is playing at AAA. He may or may not be out of options. As GM, I want to clear up a spot on the 40-man roster. I put Joe Shortstop on waivers, and designate him for assignment. This opens a spot on the 40-man roster. After he clears waivers I "outright" him back to his AAA team. He now has a minor league contract.
This how it worked in OOTP 6.5. As far as I know, it's also the way it works in MLB.
Guys with large contracts are really not an issue here. They almost always have enough ML service time to refuse assignment to the minors or enough talent that they don't get through waivers.
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This last point is key. In the Bigs there are so many teams looking to fill niche roles that players of *any* value get claimed often. However, in a related thread someone pointed out Ryan Vogelsong of the Pirates as a good example of this actually happening. He was in the Bigs, DFA'd, placed on waivers, cleared waivers, and then outrighted to AAA (
http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/a...d=milb&cid=484). He is now not on their 40 man (
http://pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com/NA...n.jsp?c_id=pit).