As a cost-cutting measure at the end of the 2020 season, Cleveland put Brad Hand on outright waivers, and not a single team claimed him. The left-handed reliever, who was one of the best bullpen arms in baseball over the last five years, was due to make $10 million in 2021, the final year of his contract. And, like Cleveland, not a single team thought that Hand would be worth that money, and passed.
Until, a few months later, the Nationals signed him to a deal worth [checks notes] $10.5 million. The Mets, who said that they would have claimed him had Sandy Alderson and Steve Cohen been making the decisions while Hand was on waivers, were in on Hand as well, but he reportedly wanted to close, and so went with Washington instead.