<font color='black' size='2' face='arial'>I i<font color="black" face="arial" size="2">magine that's what was intended, and the rules are set up for an opening weekend draft, so preseason trades would never be an issue. I didn't check to see if there are any uses of "season" that would become inconsistent with each other if we were to interpret the "season" as beginning immediately after the draft.<br>
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On Mar 24, 2013, at 10:37 AM, <a href="mailto:springkerb@aol.com">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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