The Angels are placing five players on waivers, including three they acquired at the trade deadline, in hopes of clearing salary.
. All five players can be claimed as early as Thursday as the Angels seek to get under the luxury-tax threshold, according to ESPN.
Waiver-claim priority is based on reverse winning percentage, so MLB's worst teams will have the first opportunity to claim these players. It is likeliest they wind up with teams on the periphery of playoff contention, who are higher on the waiver order than the league's best teams.Los Angeles acquired Giolito, López and Grichuk ahead of the Aug.
in order to get Giolito and López. But the Angels crashed after the deadline, losing seven games in a row to go from three games back of a playoff spot to eight games back in the span of a week.The Angels' struggles have continued through August. They've gone 7-18 in the month, falling to 63-69 as they sit 11.5 games back of a playoff spot entering Tuesday.
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