Lots of teams do this every year with lots and lots of players, partially just to gauge what kind of interest there is around the league in them. There may be more to it than that, and if so someone who knows more about the process can add on to this. But I know this happens quite a bit around baseball. Exactly. I've heard that a gigantic amount of players get placed on waivers, for the reasons that you just used. Just because a team puts a player on waivers doesn't mean that they want to trade or get rid of that player. Like Roast said, they're just trying to see the interest that other teams in the league have in that specific player.