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The 2016 trade deadline came and went earlier this week, though that doesn't mean the trading season is over. Teams still have the ability to make waiver trades. In recent years players like Chase Utley , Fernando Rodney , Austin Jackson , Justin Morneau , and Adrian Gonzalez were involved in August waiver trades.
Here's a primer explaining how waiver trades work. The short version is this: a player who is claimed on trade waivers can only be traded to the claiming team. A player who goes unclaimed can be traded anywhere.