I can't imagine otherwise. These are unbalanced trades. <div><br></div><div>Any one else playing for 2014? If so, call me. <span></span><br><br>On Sunday, March 24, 2013, Andrew Klein wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="auto"><div>I would interpret the rule to apply once the draft is over. Should clean that up or argue about it if others disagree.<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Mar 24, 2013, at 10:37 AM, <a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'springkerb@aol.com');" target="_blank">springkerb@aol.com</a> wrote:<br>
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Berliners to Nukes: Eric Hosmer,David Murphy*, Chris Tillman, Andrew Bailey<br>
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Red Hots to Nukes: Tyler Flowers, Yu Darvish, Jarrod Parker and Sean Rodriguez<br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">These trades are being treated as permitted unbalanced trades, per league rules, for purposes of this announcement. However, for what it's worth, I think it is arguable that the rule does not apply to pre-season trades<font face="arial">, because the rule expressly applies only during "the season" which is generally used in the rules to refer to the MLB regular season.</font></font><br>
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