<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">I think Jeff is correct. You are allowed one and only one +1 asterisk trade with another team in one season, but that does not preclude balanced asterisk trades later. Here is the text:<div><br></div><div><div><span style="color: rgb(107, 107, 107); font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">During the season, a team may engage in a trade with another team in which the difference between the number of Asterisk Players that it trades away and the number of Asterisk players that it disposes of is one, </span><u style="color: rgb(107, 107, 107); font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; box-sizing: border-box;">provided</u><span style="color: rgb(107, 107, 107); font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, that the teams involved in the trade have not consummated another trade with each other during the season in reliance on this Section 12.9.</span><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 4, 2026, at 7:52\u202fAM, Jeffrey Winick <jwinick@hwhlegal.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>
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Not the way I read the rule. The most recent trade wasn\u2019t imbalanced. Same number of asterisks on both side of the trade. </div>
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<div dir="auto"> Doesn\u2019t Section 12.9 of the constitution prohibit the same two owners from consummating more than one asterisk trade in the same season? Regardless if the asterisks even out? </div>
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Full disclosure, I could have had Kyle Bradish instead of Neto and Anthony but after I stopped laughing I settled for this deal. </div>
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<div>On Sunday, May 3rd, 2026 at 12:58 PM, Jeffrey Winick <<a href="mailto:jwinick@hwhlegal.com" target="_blank">jwinick@hwhlegal.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div><p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1d2228; letter-spacing:-.25pt">After having been convinced by Andy that Bobby Witt is a complete bust, I felt like I had no choice but to get rid of him as soon as possible ;-)</span></p><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1d2228; letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1d2228; letter-spacing:-.25pt">More seriously though, I am pleased to announce the following mutually beneficial transaction:</span></p><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1d2228; letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#26282a; letter-spacing:-.25pt">Win Ick Ben Ein Berliners gets:</span></p><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#26282a; letter-spacing:-.25pt">Josh Lowe LAA from Block's Bombers</span></p><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#26282a; letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#26282a; letter-spacing:-.25pt">Roman Anthony Bos from Block's Bombers</span></p><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#26282a; letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#26282a; letter-spacing:-.25pt">Slade Cecconi Cle from Block's Bombers</span></p><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#26282a; letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#26282a; letter-spacing:-.25pt">Zach Neto LAA from Block's Bombers</span></p><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#26282a; letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#26282a; letter-spacing:-.25pt">Block's Bombers gets:</span></p><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#26282a; letter-spacing:-.25pt">Bobby Witt KC from Win Ick Ben Ein Berliners</span></p><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#26282a; letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#26282a; letter-spacing:-.25pt">Tristan Peters CWS from Win Ick Ben Ein Berliners</span></p><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#26282a; letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#26282a; letter-spacing:-.25pt">Ryan Weathers NYY from Win Ick Ben Ein Berliners</span></p><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#26282a; letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#26282a; letter-spacing:-.25pt">Julio Rodriguez Sea from Win Ick Ben Ein Berliners</span></p><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1d2228; letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1d2228; letter-spacing:-.25pt">Logan Gilbert is looking for a new home. Surely someone can make me an offer I find appealing.</span></p><p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1d2228; letter-spacing:-.25pt"><br>
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</span></p><p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1d2228; letter-spacing:-.25pt">That is all!</span></p><p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1d2228; letter-spacing:-.25pt"><br>
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