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Originally Posted by Nittany Dodgers

Just for the record, I went back to the original debate on this subject, and this exact scenario was in my first post on it (that the right to decline or match a player should not be traded for compensation). Of course, that didn't make it into the rule book, as the thread containing the vote to ban RFA trades was horrendously written (by me).

Right, the rule book states the following:

RFA's cannot be traded prior to the start of in-season free agency (August 15^th). The team winning the rights to the RFA (either the tendering team if they decide to match, or the highest bidding team if the tendering team declines to match) cannot trade that player until the start of in-season free agency has begun.

Barlow was not "traded," though I did agree not to match (which is not indicated in the final rule we adopted, which I'll add were revised many times as the compensation system was developed, thus likely the reason for the omission from your original post).