<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body 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="mailto:springkerb@aol.com">springkerb@aol.com</a> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font color="black" size="2" face="arial"><font color="black" face="arial" size="2">
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<font color="black" face="arial" size="2"><font color="black" face="arial" size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Nukes, Berliners and Red Hots announce the following trades:<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Nukes to Berliners: Billy Butler*, Coco Crisp, CC Sabathia* and Jared Burton<br>
Berliners to Nukes: Eric Hosmer,David Murphy*, Chris Tillman, Andrew Bailey<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Nukes to Red Hots: Matt Wieters, Justin Verlander*, Doug Fister and Darren Oliver</font><br>
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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