A lot of people got the vapors when they read the tweet below from Bob Nightengale, though it was less about Starlin Castro and more about Dexter Fowler’s passage through the waiver wire that had them worried.
The #Cubs still have not placed displaced SS Starlin Castro on waivers, but CF Dexter Fowler went through waivers, and cleared.
— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) August 19, 2015
Thing is, teams do this all the time, often with guys they fully intend on keeping around. Kind of a free way to gauge interest in a given player, particularly one who’ll be a free agent at the end of the season.