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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
Not quite in real life, as the club has 10 days to decide what it wants to do (reduced by the various waiver request time requirements). The club does not have to immediately seek outright waivers after designating a player, since it has time to consider what it wants to do. It might outright him; it might not.
Note that, under some circumstances, a player can be optioned to satisfy a DFA, but this is rare.
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If a player must clear waivers, by definition, he's on waivers. I get what you're saying but that does not apply in the case of this player.