While the “trade deadline” come and gone, teams can still swap players, as the M’s and Pirates just demonstrated. The M’s bring in hard-throwing bullpen arm Archimedes Euclides Caminero at the cost of some PTBNLs. Given that Caminero’s out of options, has a FIP of 4.74 this year, did time on the DL this year and hit two D’Backs in the head in one game, it’s not a surprise that he cleared waivers.
That said, Caminero will always get a shot. Caminero’s fastball has averaged 98.4 MPH over his career, good for 8th fastest in the pitch fx era.